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ABA Labor and Employment Law Committee Midyear Meeting – Madrid
MAY 8, 2025
Our colleague Almudena Álvarez attended May 4-8 the ABA Labor and Employment Law Committee Midyear Meeting held at The Palace Hotel in the city of Madrid.
More than 150 law professionals from around the globe attended the meeting and dove deep into some of today’s most pressing issues: ESG, DEI, digital platform workers, sexual misconduct investigations, etc.
Our colleague also had the opportunity to catch up with our AIJA and ELLINT colleagues and showed them around our hometown Madrid!
Gender Discrimination at Work: An EU Perspective
APRIL 24, 2025
Our colleague Almudena Álvarez participated as a speaker in a CLE-accredited legal training for attorneys from New York State, organized by the Queens County Women's Bar Association held last week in Lisbon.
The course, "Gender Discrimination at Work: An EU Perspective," explored key topics such as "equal pay for equal work or work of equal value" and its link to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
She also had the incredible opportunity to visit the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça of Portugal.
Obrigadas very much to our Portuguese colleagues from Paramount Legal for the invitation and for co-organizing this inspiring event!
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference – Marrakech
APR 5, 2025
Our colleague Almudena Álvarez attended last week the Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference held in colorful Marrakech. Almost 500 employment and labor lawyers from all around the globe gathered in Morocco to network and discuss the last trends on employment law.
One of the clear hot topics was of course related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Amazing and brave panelists analyzed the current situation in the US and its international impact under the title: “is DEI officially dead?”
We will definitely come back, many thanks International Bar Association!
ELLINT Spring Meeting – Dublin
MAR 30, 2025
This week our colleagues Nuria Naranjo and Almudena Álvarez attended the Spring Meeting of ELLINT: Employment & Labor Lawyers International in welcoming Dublin.
Besides discussing the goals of the organization for the upcoming months, our colleagues had the opportunity to attend 2 excellent presentations about i) Pay Transparency (led by Mette Klingsten from Mette Klingsten Advokatpartnerselskab) and ii) Internal Investigations (led by Marijke Granier-Guillemarre from MGG LEGAL).
As the Ha' Penny Bridge, ELLINT connects employment lawyers from 21 jurisdictions to make the life our international clients easier.
Go rabid math agat McInnes Dunne Murphy for organizing such an excellent meeting!
Male pay gap
MAR 25, 2025
There is no discrimination when a senior manager earns less than the other female senior managers because all of them have senior management contracts and, therefore, the legislation on equal pay is not applicable (article 28 of the Spanish Employment Act and related legislation) because they do not have a regular employment relationship.
In addition, there is no gender discrimination under the application of the constitutional right of equality (article 14 of the Spanish Constitution), because the pay gap was a result of the free will of both parties when they negotiated their conditions. In senior management contracts there is a presumption that the negotiating power of the parties is more balanced and the contract has more similarities to a commercial or civil contract.
Canary Appellate Court 02/29/24.
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