The professionals of Galibier Legal have demonstrated on numerous occasions that it is possible to reach the top beyond any frontier.
That is why we have the privilege of being incorporated as the exclusive labour law firm in Spain in two international networks:
IAE Group (International Advisory Experts: https://iae.group/) and Advisory Excellence (https://www.advisoryexcellence.com/).
Being members of these prestigious international networks allows Galibier Legal to provide the necessary assistance to our clients when it comes to solving any legal need anywhere in the world and, at the same time, gives us the opportunity to offer our services and labour advice to both international Managers and Human Resources departments.
Galibier Legal has positioned itself as an international benchmark boutique law firm in labour law, providing service and support to both companies that already operate or are about to start operating in Spain, as well as those that intend to expand abroad.
- Advice on international regulations.
- Training of senior executives in Spanish labour law.
- Processing of work permits (international talent).
- Multinational transfers and trips. Expatriates and impatriates.
- European Works Councils.
- Collective negotiation at the Community level.
- International Social Security.
- Legal assistance in disputes arising from expatriations.
- Drafting of contracts and expatriation agreements.
Other services
Labour law and labour law legal advice
- Assistance and defence in conciliation hearings and trials.
- Assistance and defence in mediation and arbitration.
- Employment contracts.
- Contracting, subcontracting and relationships with temporary employment agencies (TEAs).
- Subrogation of staff and business succession.
- Remuneration policies.
- Equality plans.
- Advice on international mobility and expatriates.
- Protocols for the use and access of technological goods.
- Geographical mobility.
- Substantial changes in working conditions.
- Functional mobility (changes in functions).
- Holidays, leaves, breaks and work-life balance.
- Dismissals and disciplinary schemes.
Special employment relationships: senior executives
- Drafting of senior executive employment contracts and non-competition agreements.
- Advice on terminating the employment of senior executives from the company.
Business restructuring: collective redundancies, MSCT, ERTEs
- Collective redundancies (EREs).
- Temporary redundancy schemes (ERTEs): suspension of contracts or reduction of working hours.
- Inapplicability of collective agreements.
- Business succession. Transfer of autonomous production units.
- Substantial changes in working conditions: individual and collective.
- Geographical mobility: national and international.
- Functional mobility.
Collective labour law: negotiation of agreements, disputes, strikes
- Negotiation with workers’ representatives: works councils, delegates and union sections.
- Negotiation of statutory and non-statutory collective agreements.
- Drafting and implementation of collective agreements.
- Harmonisation of agreement terms and conditions in business succession processes.
- Company agreements and pacts.
- Collective disputes.
- Strikes and lockouts.
Social security: pension plans and funds
- Pension plans and funds.
- Corporate responsibility: contributions.
- Temporary disabilities and their monitoring.
- Permanent disabilities.
- Early retirement and retirement: preparation of individual and collective schemes.
- Analysis of the Social Security scheme.
Labour litigation and proceedings
- Individual and collective proceedings.
- Defence against challenges to redundancy schemes (EREs and ERTEs).
- Dismissals and disciplinary sanctions.
- Objective dismissals.
- Collective disputes.
- Involvement during work inspections.
- Mediation and arbitration.
- Social Security litigation.
- Ordinary and extraordinary appeals (reconsideration, reversal, cassation and relief).
- Administrative and contentious-administrative procedures in labour-related and Social Security matters.
Occupational health and safety
- Workplace accidents and occupational illnesses.
- Business obligations.
- Inter-company coordination, surveillance and information.
- Compliance checks for prevention obligations: compliance.
- Corporate responsibilities.
- Assistance in case of workplace accidents: sanctions and benefit surcharge.
- Assistance in case of work inspections and recourse against notices of violation.
Audits, due diligence, labour law compliance check
- Labour-related aspects in merger and acquisition processes.
- Preparation and analysis of labour and employment due diligence.
- Identification of existing labour-related irregularities in the transferred company.
- Review of adaptation to current labour legislation.
- Analysis of the human resources structure and practices.
- Proposals for action and channels for their implementation.
Outsourcing, illegal transfer and business succession
- Conducting studies to identify labour-related situations of risk in the following areas:
- TRADES: negotiation and formalisation of agreements.
- TEAs: assistance obtaining administrative permits.
- TEAs: formalisation and review of staffing services contracts.
- Works or service contracts: legal compliance check.
- Succession and transfer of businesses, work centres and autonomous production units.
- Conventional subrogation.
- Succession and transfer of contracts.
- Illegal transfer of workers: control protocols.
Confidentiality and data protection agreements
- Design of confidentiality and trade secret protocols and clauses.
- Definition of conduct that violates the duty of secrecy.
- Adoption of measures to ensure the duty of secrecy during the term of the contract.
- Adoption of measures to ensure the duty of secrecy after the termination of the contract.
- Data protection: staff selection and privacy.
- Professional contact information.
- Internal whistleblower systems.
- Transfers of data between companies.
- Data protection and union action.
Business controls and new technologies
- Fundamental rights and guarantees of workers’ digital rights.
- Performance and control: protocols for the use of technological means and digital devices.
- Technological control of workers: video cameras, chats, email, computers and other electronic devices, telephone recordings, geolocation.
- Digital disconnection protocols.
- Staff training and awareness actions on the use of technological tools.
- Employee workplace and locker searches.
- Health checks: medical check-ups.
- Controls for absenteeism.
- Purpose and limits of controls: performance and conduct.
Workplace harassment, gender equality and work-life balance
- Protocols of action in case of complaints of workplace harassment.
- Plans for effective equality between men and women.
- Monitoring and evaluation systems for equality plans.
- Labour-related measures for gender equality.
- Wage transparency and reducing the gender wage gap.
- Adjustment of working hours for work-life balance.
- Reduction of working hours for family reasons.
We train employees and managers in order to keep them focused on the goals set by the company as well as their own personal goals, so that they can achieve them.
Internal training to maintain the focus on the goals set by the company as well as their own personal goals
- Training of senior executives in Spanish labour law.
- Advice on international regulations.
- Training of senior executives in Spanish labour law.
- Processing of work permits (international talent).
- Multinational transfers and trips. Expatriates and impatriates.
- European Works Councils.
- Collective negotiation at the Community level.
- International Social Security.
- Legal assistance in disputes arising from expatriations.
- Drafting of contracts and expatriation agreements.
- Specialist advice for managers in individual labour disputes.
- Legal assistance in employee termination processes.
- Functional mobility.
- International mobility.
- Workplace harassment and disparagement.
- Overwork, stress and burnout syndrome.
