Publications - Labor and Employment
Colombia: The six labor amendments in the National Development Plan (NDP)
By means of Law 1955 of 2019, the National Government passed the National Development Plan (NDP) for the four-year term (2018-2022). The Plan includes a series of changes in Colombian labor policy, which are presented below.
Colombia: The EPS cannot order employers to provide the medical records of their employees to process incapacity to work
The Ministry of Health and Social Protection, in a resolution dated February 20, 2019, has established that due to the private and reserved nature of medical records, health care entities (EPS) cannot order employers to provide the medical records…
For the purposes of the registration of daily working hours… Participation in commercial events is considered as effective working time
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Compulsory time recording is now a reality
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The creation of the Contract-Generation measure introduces new incentives for hiring
On April 12, 2019 was published on Diário da República the Decree n. º 112-A/2019 that regulates the creation of the Contract-Generation measure (hereinafter “measure”), which consists on the assignment of…
New conciliaton measures will increase litigation
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New legal changes were introduced to the financial support program to promote employment
It was published today in the official gazette Ordinance no. 95/2019, of March 29, introducing amendments to the “Contrato-Emprego” Program (a public program to promote the employment in Portugal, with financial support to employers…
These are Spain's measures to prepare for a no-deal Brexit in the fields of employment, judicial cooperation, financial services and customs
The Spanish government has adopted a range of contingency measures to prepare for the event of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without an agreement on March 30, 2019. They are temporary measures approved through Royal Decree-Law 5/2019…
Spain approves Brexit labor contingency measures
Royal Decree-Law 5/2019, of March 1, 2019, adopts a number of contingency measures in light of a potential no-deal regarding the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union on March 30, 2019,…
Extraordinary Supplement for Pensions
Ordinance no. 71/2019, of February 28, was published, establishing the amounts of the extraordinary supplement for pensions of disability and old age of the Social Security system.
The law that will protect trade secrets has been approved
New Trade Secrets Law 1/2019, of February 20, 2019 (TSL, available here) has been published in the Official State Gazette. The Law will come into force on March 13, 2019. It transposes into Spanish law, Directive (EU) 2016/943 of 8 June 2016, on the…
Turnaround by the Supreme Court: company lunchrooms are no longer mandatory
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