Tag: work
Spain’s prime ministerial hopeful Yolanda Diaz proposes cutting work week from 40 to 32 hours
SPAIN’S deputy prime minister and labour minister, Yolanda Diaz, has proposed lowering the country’s work week from 40 to 37.5 hours a week in...
Survey: Seventy percent of staff in Spain are still doing overtime despite government’s obligatory time-control system
SOME 70% of workers in Spain are still doing the same amount of overtime as they did before May 12, 2019, when the government...
Spain’s Benalmadena to close beaches until July due to building work
BENALMADENA City Council has announced that it is going to close the Torrebermeja and Las Gaviotas beaches to the public starting next Monday, March...
How not to lose your job at a work Christmas party in Spain
THERE are plenty of things to worry about ahead of a work Christmas do. Will it be boring; will Steve from accounts get drunk...
Who can request the new aid of €100 per child from the Spanish Government?
THE Spanish Government has given the green light to additional funding that the Minister of Social Rights hopes will help tackle child poverty in...
Shocking job offer in Spain goes viral for ‘disgusting’ demands on potential employee
THE internet is desperate to find out the identity of the business owner offering ’shocking’ working conditions with a recent viral job ad.
It’s not...
A Helping Hand: Help the community and earn extra cash in the UK
WITH a recession once again crippling the job market in Spain, many expats have been left without seasonal or permanent work.
Some have been separated...
‘70% of Spain’s residents are fed up with their job’, among MINDBLOWING stats which show how unhappy the country...
Other data include that 80% dislike Mondays and that only 13% of men and 24% of women think the salary they receive is fair.
70% Amazon staff at largest warehouse in Spain strike ahead of Three Kings Day
AMAZON workers at their Madrid warehouse have gone on strike ahead of the Three Kings Day.
Staff walked out yesterday as part of a long...
FOUND: British woman missing on Costa del Sol for almost seven weeks safe after ‘sleeping rough’
But Marie McManus still needs your help to find a job and get back on her feet
Women do double the amount of unpaid work than men in Spain
SPANISH woman do almost twice as much unpaid work as men.
Figures released by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) show that women do 26.5...
Number of jobless in Spain rises to 3.47 million, new figures reveal
This means 7,255 people no longer have a job, bringing the total to 3.47 million people out of work.
The jobbing jetset: Live in Spain, work in the UK
Live in Spain, work in London ... it’s cheaper, quipped British MP Tessa Jowell, last month. But guess what – some career high flyers do exactly that! Reporters Nina Chausow and Joe Duggan track down the new jetset commuters
Spain’s youngsters ARE actively seeking work
Spain's youths are shaking off the ‘lazy’ label harshly attributed to under 25s
Employment in Spain on the up in first quarter of 2015
Employment in Spain rose by 3% in the first quarter of this year
Barcelona bar only hiring waiters over 50
Entrepanes Diaz, a trendy bar in the heart of the Catalan capital, is now only hiring waiters over 50
UPDATE: Possible loophole found in scrapping of Winter Fuel Allowance
Expats have until January 24 to overturn Winter Fuel Allowance ruling
Spanish lawyer wife of British Deputy PM says she doesn’t ‘want it all’
Miriam Gonzalez Durantez insists she just wants what men have
Gibraltar-Spain border delays to get even worse as works begin
Works will cause further delays from September 8 to end of March
New work hours to threaten Spanish siesta
The siesta may be a thing of the past as stores open 25% more hours each week
Spain hires Germany as ‘Sherpa’
Spaniards to receive German-style on-the-job training to help them land well-paid positions
UK and Spain are working longer hours than ever
Increasing number of workers are spending more time wrapped up in work
Blogging for Spanish jobs
Spain’s lost generation - or ‘the New Poor’ - are launching a fightback