ic crisis, Spain is suffering a dramatic and sharp increase in unemployment. This has led the Government to urgently approve a series of social measures (see our dispatch No. 090239). The measures are financial incentives encouraging employers to appeal to the reduction or suspension of activity rather than to redundancies; to recruit jobseekers or even to recruit with part-time permanent contracts. By Francisco Gomez Abelleira, labor law professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid. (Ref. 090281)
Though the general policy of the Government is that no such measure should become law unless agreed upon by the social partners, an exception has been made here, due to the weakness of the labor market (see our dispatch No.
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