Spain - High Court ruling challenges pay cuts - November 11, 2010

The FSC-CCOO and FSP-UGT public service federations have welcomed a ruling by the High Court that the imposition of pay cuts may have contravened constitutional rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The case also raises issues of equal treatment as the pay cut was imposed at the Royal Spanish Mint but not in other public companies such as the RENFE railways. The particular legal challenge relates to employees of the Royal Mint but if the result is confirmed then it may well be applicable much more broadly across publicly owned companies and even across the public sector.

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/387

Spanish:http://www.fspugt.es/Parece_que_la_Audiencia_Nacional_a_va_elevar ...

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2010.