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Types of Disability Caused by Silicosis

Disability due to silicosis or pneumoconiosis is the reduction or limitation of a person's capacity to work, as defined by law, whereby the affected individual receives a type of…

Burnout as a Work Accident: Midwives

The claimant, a midwife by profession, submitted a claim for permanent disability on the grounds of work-related stress, formally diagnosed as "adaptive disorder with chronic…

SILICOSIS: occupational illness

Types of silicosis by severity. How to claim damages? How can a disability pension be increased by up to 50%? How to find the best specialists in work-related accidents and…

Employment Lawyer – Dismissal & Video Surveillance

Video surveillance evidence in dismissal proceedings: Article 20 of the Workers' Statute provides that employers may adopt such monitoring and control measures as they consider…

Business Digitalisation

Opinion piece by Josep Conesa Sagrera. This article on psychosocial risks in the workplace was published in the newspaper Expansión on 10 November 2017.

Jordi Conesa Speaks at the Catalan Economists' Association

The Benefits Surcharge and Baker's Asthma

We examine here a real case involving a benefit surcharge that closely resembles the silicosis cases currently emerging, one we believe is worth presenting in detail because of…

Psychosocial Risks: Protocol for Moral and Sexual Harassment at Work

EMPLOYMENT COMPLIANCE: HOW TO IDENTIFY AND PREVENT PSYCHOSOCIAL RISKS The consequences of workplace moral and sexual harassment can give rise to illnesses that may be classified…

Serious and repeated errors justify a fair dismissal.

Modifying Working Conditions and Workforce Flexibility

Sexual harassment at work and fair dismissal for kissing a female employee on the cheek

José Conesa Ballestero Receives the Distinguished Cross of the Order of San Raimundo de Peñafort

On Friday, 19 December, a solemn investiture ceremony was held in the Central Hall of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, organised by the General Council of…

The Constitutional Court upholds the labour reform

Collective Bargaining Reform Approved

The Royal Decree-Law that has been approved seeks to reconcile the employers' associations' drive for greater flexibility with the trade unions' demands for wider collective…

Nullity in collective dismissal

Nullity on grounds of fixed-term contracts entered into in breach of the law The ruling 951/2021, of 29 September, of the Supreme Court, declares the nullity of a collective…

The Government Is Considering Taxing Dismissal Severance Pay

On 5 July 2013, the Spanish Government appointed an Expert Commission to examine a possible tax reform. That Commission has now completed its report, which is due to be debated in…

Retirement Calculation: How Will Your Pension Look? Examples

Calculating your retirement pension: standard retirement age The standard retirement age in Spain is 67. Workers who have completed a full contribution career (38 years and 6…

New Labour Reform

A Very Royal Fortune

The case of the yacht Fortuna reveals how procedural errors and unlawful secondment of workers can lead to multi-million-euro compensation awards. This ruling implicates not only…

Possible Removal of the 40% FOGASA Subsidy

The current government is seeking to remove Article 33(8) of the Workers' Statute, the well-known provision entitling companies with fewer than 25 employees to a 40% subsidy…

5th ELEN Annual General Assembly Held in Barcelona

Conesa Asociados law firm is a founding member of the European Legal Network (ELEN). José Conesa served as its founding President and, after four years, has resumed the role, an…

iusfamilia.com - A Division of Conesa Asociados Law Firm

We are pleased to announce the launch of "ius familia", a new division of Bufete Conesa Asociados dedicated to family law. The division is built around an initial online…

ius familia – Training Day

On 15 May, solicitor María Serra Muñoz delivered a training session for mediators at the Barcelona College of Social Educators, focusing on the main changes introduced by Book II…

José Conesa Ballestero Appointed Advisory President and Awarded the Cruz de San Raimundo de Peñafort

Participation in the Seventh Edition of the European Jurist Forum

collective dismissal, Contract Suspension and Working Hours Reduction

The ongoing labour reforms have now introduced Royal Decree 1483/2012, of 29 October, which regulates the procedures for collective dismissal, contract suspension and working…

Opting Out of the collective bargaining agreement

Back in 2010, we were already noting that labour reforms had reduced the requirements and formalities involved in many aspects of collective bargaining, both within and outside…

Participation in AIJA Seminar in Barcelona

Mª Teresa Garasa, a commercial lawyer at Conesa Asociados law firm and member of the International Association of Young Lawyers, AIJA,participated in the AIJA 2012 Pre-Congress…

José Conesa Published in Argentine Legal Journal

José Conesa has published an article in the latest issue of the prestigious Argentine journal Trabajo y Social Security, analysing the main aspects of the reform of Spanish…

Annual Assembly of EUROPEAN LEGAL NETWORK: ELEN in Porto

The annual assembly of European Legal Network: ELEN took place on 28, 29 and 30 June in Porto, bringing together the managing partners of the network's member firms: Jean-Jacques…