The Spanish government’s recent decree on labour reform is thought to be just a prelude to a far lengthier process of overhauls for the Spanish parliamentary and labour system.
The decree is due to be ratified by parliament on June 22 and even though there is a distinct lack of political backing for the reform, analysts [...]
Prime Minister Zapatero announced today a budget plan aimed at tackling Spain’s economic worries in an effort to ward off the woes currently afflicting Greece. As a fellow member of the eurozone, Spain is susceptible to the economic fluctuations of all zone members and, despite the country boasting the fourth-largest economy in the EU, has [...]
Spain’s leading daily newspaper – El País – reported on Sunday that the number of unemployed people in the country fell for the first time in eight months last week by approximately 24,000. However, this report was at odds with figures published by the national statistics institute (INE), which revealed that unemployment had risen to [...]
The governor of Spain’s Central Bank, Miguel Ángel Fernández Ordóñez, stated today that the country should seek ways to tackle its uniquely high levels of unemployment by making changes to its generous benefits for workers who have their ‘indefinido’ contracts prematurely terminated.
The country’s ‘very Spanish problem of high employment’ (in the words of Ordóñez) is [...]
The world is full of pointless organisations. There’s the Scottish Football Association (an oxymoron in terms, surely?), the Conservative Party and the Screen Actors Guild (which sports the rather unfortunate acronym of SAG… better than SCAG I suppose, and they really dodged a curveball by not calling themselves the Film Actors Guild) to name but [...]
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