Find Lawyers in Spain for Employee Benefits Law
Practice Area Overview
The Employee Benefits law referrs to the compensation provided by the Companies to employees in addition to their normal wages or salaries.
This practice area regulates the types of compensation that must be provided by law and those the employer offers as an option to compensate employees.
Spain is a country which offers a higher amount of coverage - for example, the coverage of unemployment, medical, maternity and paternity leave, and retirement through the Public System ruled by the General and Social Security Act, 8/2015.
Other employee benefits are normally used as a recruitment and retention tool by the Companies. This plays an important role inside a Company, as the benefits offered can be a deciding factor for a potential employee´s decision to work in a particular Company. Lawyers experienced in the employee benefits area of law can assist employees in the defense of their rights to already established benefits, particularly when they have been modified or terminated.
These lawyers can also assist the employers in their knowledge about the position of the law regarding these benefits as well as making sure they comply with the laws and have a correct understanding of them. They must also know the difference between what is required by law and what benefits are part of the employee´s compensation package to help in recruitment.
It is also important to have full knowledge of the tax regime of these benefits, as most kinds of employee´s benefits are taxable to at least some level. An important part of this practice area would be analyzing the tax impact in these measures adopted by a Company.
The most common employee benefits that are not required by law, and are offered by Companies as a compensation package are: retirement plans, life insurance, health insurance, dental insurance, and paid leave.
These packages are highly relevant nowadays in Spain, especially due to the increasing uncertainty of the future of the public system, which might not ensure coverage as it does these days.
Max joined Crowe Tax & Legal in 2003 and has since then been Senior Partner and Head of the Labor Law Department in Barcelona. Max provides advice to companies in the process of staff restructuring, changing working conditions and collective bargaining. In addition, he is also a socio-occupational auditor and took part in operational due diligences, labor compliance development of variable remuneration systems and implementation of gender equality. He has also wide experience in litigatio...
Practice area: Employment Daniel Cifuentes joined Pérez-Llorca as partner in 2014. His experience includes matters such as collective dismissals, collective action, collective bargaining agreements as well as advice on transfer of undertakings and remuneration schemes. He also has a wealth of experience in senior management matters and judicial proceedings before the labour and administrative courts.
Luis Enrique Fernández Pallarés made partner at Pérez-Llorca in 2007. He specialises in collective bargaining agreements, labour contracts, negotiation of pension schemes, high management, labour and employment litigation. He provides advice and represents clients before employment tribunals on labour regulations and in negotiations on labour adjustment procedures. Luis lectures on Labour Law at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a...
Practice Areas Employment. Marta is an expert in individual negotiations and collective bargaining, legal proceedings before labour and contentious-administrative courts, Social Security, occupational risk prevention, work-life balance rights, equality plans, fundamental rights and international assignments, among others. Career Marta Iranzo joined Pérez-Llorca in 2021. Prior to this, Marta was a partner in the employment law practice area of a Spanish firm and has 22 years of experien...
LLB from Universidad de Barcelona and Master’s Degree in Corporate Legal Consultancy from Instituto de Empresa. He joined Crowe Legal and Tax in 2017, and has since been a partner in the Labor Law area at the firm’s offices in Barcelona. He has been a partner in the Labor Law area of Cuatrecasas since 1997, and previously worked in the Barcelona offices of Ernst & Young. He has extensive experience in advising businesses on labor matters, particularly in relation to restructur...
Director responsable de asesoramiento en pensiones, PwC España. Cuenta con 30 años de experiencia en los que ha liderado numerosos proyectos en materia de previsión social, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, enfocados en el diseño y transformación de sistemas de previsión, control de riesgos y buen gobierno, contabilización y auditoría de compromisos por pensiones, asesoramiento en procesos de fusiones y adquisiciones, asesoramie...
Practice Areas Employment, compensation and benefits. Isabel provides advice on all aspects of employment relationships, with experience in processing restructuring proceedings, carrying out employment audits, designing remuneration schemes for employees, as well as negotiating with trade unions and workers’ representatives. Likewise, she provides mediation, conciliation and arbitration services before the Labour and Social Security Inspection Authorities and before the labour courts on...
Degree in Economics from Universidad de Barcelona. She holds an Executive Master in taxes by ESADE. She has more than 15 year’s professional experience with tax consulting. She has wide experience in International Assignment Services, design and implementation of Compensation and Benefits Plans, definition of Compensation programs for Senior Executives, etc.
LLB from Universidad de Barcelona (1990). Admitted to the Bar of Barcelona in 1992. Partner within the Labor Law area at the Barcelona offices of Crowe Legal y Tributario since July 2017. Ms. Parra started her professional career as a Corporate Labor Relations Lawyer in 1991. Member of the Legal Area of the Spanish Trade Union UGT between 1993 and 1994, she resumed her career as a corporate legal advisor in 1995. In 1996 she joined the Labor Law area of Cuatrecasas in Barcelona and became a p...
LLB from Universitat de Girona and LLM from Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE), Gloria Reig has spent nearly her entire professional career working within the Labor Law area of Cuatrecasas, a firm she joined in 2000 following a 2-year period at Ernst&Young. She became a partner of Crowe Legal y Tributario in 2017. She advises both national and international companies of different industries on Labor Law and Social Security matters, regarding both recurring and specific...
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