Education & Employment news & information for Spain

THE START of the 2020-2021 academic year will be different from ever before, but some of the consequences of Covid-19 precautions will be positive progress.

TEMPORARY lay-offs during lockdown can remain in place until June 30, by which time the government expects normality to have returned to the business environment, confirms work minister Yolanda Díaz.

SPAIN'S national government has authorised some industries to restart their activity, subject to certain restrictions, but the general public is not otherwise allowed to leave the house for anything other than the...

COMPANIES are now not allowed to make staff redundant due to 'structural, financial, technical, organisational, production-related reasons or due to force majeur' until after the national quarantine finishes.

IF YOU LIVE and work in Spain right now and your job is of the type you can do from home, it's very likely your firm will be telling you tomorrow – if it hasn't already – that you should keep calm, stay...

SPAIN'S government has increased the minimum wage in line with its pledged scale of rises back in 2018, which aims for it to reach the European Union requirement of 60% of the national average wage by the year 2022.

MAJOR high-street retailers are already advertisings for extra Christmas staff more than a month away from the 'big day' – and, in fact, it's a time of year when around 1.15 million new job contracts are...

CHILDREN, teens and young adults across Spain have been going back to school and college this week, and parents digging deep in their pockets to find the cash for textbooks and notebooks – which pupils are required to...

THE WOMAN who has paid into Spain's State pension pot the longest has finally announced her decision to retire.

FC BARCELONA’S Leo Messi and singer Aitana are the celebrities children would most like to have as their boss when they grow up – replacing former Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo and Colombian-born pop-rocker...

TOMORROW'S first-jobbers will not be prepared to work full-time for less than a net salary of €1,366 a month, believe graduate work experience should be paid, and want more practical content in their degree...

ONLINE retail giant Amazon needs 200 new employees for its Kindle technological development team in Madrid.