Spain's government on Tuesday reached an agreement with union bosses and employers to extend its coronavirus furlough
scheme until the end of January, despite the impact on public finances.
This week the Spanish government established a draft bill that regulates remote working, a practice that has become widespread during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Spain's left-wing government on Tuesday banned companies from firing workers who repeatedly take sick leave, in its first reform of a contested 2012 overhaul of the country's labour laws.
Each year thousands of English-speakers enrol in a programme to work in public schools across Spain as language assistants known in Spanish as auxiliaries de conversación.
Spain's new Socialist government under Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday brokered an accord with unions and bosses lifting the minimum wage 5.5 percent or €59.8 euros to €1,108 ($1,230) gross a month.
Language teachers in Madrid have faced an unprecedented attack on their working rights in recent years, and the UK’s looming departure from the EU could potentially make matters a lot worse.
Spain posted its weakest job creation for the month of September in six years, amid a slowdown in the eurozone's fourth largest economy which will hold a repeat general election next month.
A no-deal Brexit would cause the loss of 1.2 million jobs across Europe, including 70,410 in Spain, according to a newly-released study by Belgium's Leuven University.
Spanish banking giant Santander wants to slash
around 3,700 jobs in Spain, or about 10 percent of its workforce in the
country, a union representative said on Tuesday.
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Spain's Socialist cabinet on Friday approved a plan to persuade some of the roughly one million workers who left the country during its 2008-2013 economic slump to return home.
Spain's unemployment rate dropped in 2018 as the country's services sector, which includes all-important tourism, generated more jobs, official figures showed Tuesday.
Vodafone said Thursday it planned to cut up to 1,200 jobs in Spain as it streamlines its organisation to cope with a drop in revenue and profits in a fiercely competitive telecommunications market.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday his cabinet would approve next week a 22 percent increase in the monthly minimum wage to €1,050 ($1,192) in 2019.
Spain's Socialist government said Friday it would inject €2 billion ($2.3 billion) into fighting sky-high youth unemployment in a country where one in every three youngsters is out of a job.
The Spanish government said Wednesday it is working on a plan to persuade skilled workers who left the country during its 2008-2013 economic slump to return home.
