Key Aspects of Spanish Labor Law: Q&A
Key Aspects of Spanish Labor Law
Topic 1: Sources of Labor Law
The sources of labor law are:
- a) Only legislation plus case law.
- b) Only case law plus CBAs.
- c) General (legislation plus case law) and special (CBAs).
Topic 2: Main Principle of Labor Law
The main traditional principle of labor law is:
- a) The principle of hierarchy of the sources.
- b) The principle of the most favorable treatment of the worker.
- c) The principle of vested rights.
Topic 3: Economically Dependent Autonomous Worker
What is the economically dependent autonomous worker?
- a) A hybrid of autonomous worker and dependent worker.
- b) A hybrid of employer and autonomous worker.
- c) A hybrid of employer and dependent worker.
Topic 4: Spanish Public Employment Services
How is the Spanish model of public employment services?
- a) Unitarian and integral.
- b) Unitarian but not integral.
- c) Neither unitarian nor integral.
Topic 5: Fixed-Term Contracts in Spain
What is, in Spain, the main problem about fixed-term contracts of employment?
- a) The costs for the employer.
- b) They are very few.
- c) The fraud of law.
Topic 6: European Union Employment Guidelines
What does the European Union recommend in its employment guidelines?
- a) Flexibility
- b) Security
- c) Flexicurity
Topic 7: Working Time Adjustments
Is it possible to make the working time worse?
- a) Yes, but only the yearly working time.
- b) Yes, the daily and weekly working time.
- c) No
Topic 8: Spanish Minimum Wage
According to the control body of the European Social Charter, the amount of the Spanish interprofessional minimum wage is:
- a) Manifestly adequate.
- b) Manifestly inadequate.
- c) None of the above-mentioned answers is right.
Topic 9: OSHA Directives in Spain
Regarding the OSHA directives of the EU, Spain is:
- a) A traditional violator of them.
- b) A traditional fulfiller of them.
- c) None of the above-mentioned answers is right.
Topic 10: Unilateral Contract Modification
In which of the following three countries is it easier to perform the unilateral modification of the contract of employment:
- a) Germany.
- b) France.
- c) Spain.
Topic 11: Contract Suspension Causes
Are the causes of suspension of the contract of employment exhaustively ruled in section 45 of the WS?:
- a) Yes.
- b) No.
- c) None of the above-mentioned answers is right.
Topic 12: Collective and Objective Dismissal
The collective dismissal and the objective dismissal are:
- a) Cousins.
- b) Identical twins.
- c) Fraternal twins.
Topic 13: Challenging a Dismissal
The limitation of action to challenge a dismissal is:
- a) 20 working days.
- b) A year.
- c) Fifteen years.
Topic 14: Workers’ Representatives Elections
What is the popular name of the workers’ representatives elections?
- a) Political elections.
- b) Exotic elections.
- c) Union elections.
Topic 15: Most Representative Unions
What are the most representative unions at a state and Galician level?
- a) CCOO, UGT, and ELA-STV.
- b) CCOO, UGT, and LAB.
- c) CCOO, UGT, and CIG.
Topic 16: Sectorial CBAs Efficacy
The general normative efficacy of the sectorial CBAs is:
- a) Typically French.
- b) Typically Spanish.
- c) Typically German.
Topic 17: Oral CBAs in Spain
Is it possible to negotiate oral CBAs in Spain?
- a) Yes, they are statutory CBAs.
- b) Yes, they are extra-statutory CBAs.
- c) No.
Topic 18: Article 28.2 of the Constitution
Has article 28.2 of the constitution, about strikes, been developed?
- a) Yes.
- b) No.
- c) None of the above-mentioned answers is right.
Topic 19: Labor Inspection
Apart from the Spanish labor inspection, exists…
- a) A Galician Labor Inspection.
- b) A Catalonian Labor Inspection.
- c) An Andalusian Labor Inspection.
Topic 20: Labor Courts and Social Security
In Spain, labor courts and social security…
- a) Are separated.
- b) Are integrated.
- c) Do not exist.
Topic 21: Labor Proceeding Speed
The speed of the first instance labor proceeding is…
- a) Possible because of the hearing.
- b) Possible because of the judicial fees.
- c) Possible because of the writing.