European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legal regulations provides information on regulations in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change.
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Information and consultation rights in the event of transfers of undertakings are exercised by workers’ delegates and workers’ committees. These rights are guaranteed in enterprises with more than 5 employees.
The law 12/2001 literally reproduced the definition of transfer included in the Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of transfer of undertaking, business or parts of undertakings of business. Thus, it is stated that 'there is a transfer when the transmission affects an economic entity which retains its identity, meaning an organised grouping of resources which has the objective of pursuing an economic activity, whether or not that activity is central or ancillary'.
The transferee shall continue to observe the terms and conditions agreed in any collective agreement on the same terms applicable to the transferor under that agreement until the date of termination or expiry of the collective agreement or the entry into force or application of another collective agreement.
Transferor and transferee are required to inform the employees' representatives of the following issues:
This information must be provided in good time (before the change of the business takes place). If there are no employees' representatives, transferor and transferee must give such information to the workers affected.
When the transferor or transferee envisages implementing substantial changes in the employment and working conditions, a consultation process must be opened with the employees’ representatives which will not be longer than 15 days. The parties must negotiate with a view to reaching an agreement.
Before transposition of the Directive 98/50/EC, Spanish legislation only established the obligation of notifying the transfer to the employees' representatives. Currently, numbers 6 to 9 of article 44 (Statute of Worker’s Rights) contain a more complete regulation. The Directive 2001/23/EC was transposed to the Spanish legislation by means of the law 12/2001 of 9 July.
Eurofound (2015), Spain: Staff information and consultation on business transfers, Restructuring legislation database, Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/legislationdb/staff-information-and-consultation-on-business-transfers/spain
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