This marks the end of a historical anomaly. Despite being the home of Zara and Mango, Spain’s ready-to-wear chain employees previously lacked a national collective agreement. They relied on company-level agreements and a series of highly local retail collective agreements with disparate and sometimes outdated frameworks. This created inequalities between employees within the same chain from one Spanish region to another.
Over three years of negotiations
Following years of disagreement with reta
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As Madrid correspondent for mind RH since 2021, I cover news developments in Spain's world of work, focusing on legal developments and collective bargaining, particularly around work-life balance, equality and inclusion policies, which have been hot topics in the country in recent years.