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.