Spain: in 2012, nearly one third of large businesses allegedly used internal flexibility to avoid layoffs

Encouraging internal labor flexibility has been one of the primary objectives of the latest labor reform. A year after the reform came into force, the Ministry of Employment and Social Security publishes a report on the way the law is being used for promoting individual internal flexibility at company level. The report reveals that nearly a third of large companies applied internal flexibility measures as an alternative to dismissal in 2012. (Ref. 130421)