The Spanish government has obligated companies to draw up and negotiate pay equality plans with employee representatives—or, where no employee representatives exist, with external unions.
Royal Decree 901/2020 obliges an employer to contact the external unions which are regarded as representative of the sector in which a business is located and invite them to participate in the negotiations.
A company could find itself having to make detailed pay information about all its employees, including managers, available to external unions that have no presence in the company.
The unions could then use that information to negotiate equality plans for a company in which they have no membership presence. How the actual employees of the company are to be consulted by an external union about such plans is unclear.
BEERG will host a BEERG Byte on this issue featuring Iñigo Sagardoy de Simón from SAGARDOY Abogados and Oriol Abello from HP. We will post it on the BEERG website on Friday evening (Friday afternoon in the U.S.).
Read the BEERG Global Labor Newsletter here.