Patricia de la Torre
Counsel, Spain
Patricia is Counsel of the Employment Department in the Madrid office.
She joined Osborne Clarke in February of 2012 from another major Spanish legal practice. She has more than thirteen years´ experience in labour law practice.
She advises companies regularly on employment matters in sectors such as Healthcare, Retail, and Technology.
She drafts and negotiates agreements in connection with both individual and collective employment matters, takes part in due diligence processes and participates in the subsequent restructuring programs involving changes to terms and conditions of employment (i.e. collective dismissal of workers). As a litigator, she has advised major clients on complex contentious and non-contentious employment litigation proceedings.
In 1997 Patricia graduated in law from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and specialised in EU law at Universidad CEU San Pablo in 1998. She is a member of the Madrid Bar Association and of ASNALA (Employment Law Association).
Insights
Employment and pensions
Spain's Supreme Court rules on when to communicate a dismissal to workers' representatives
What are the formalities that a company must follow when notifying a termination for objective causes?
29/09/2023
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2m
Employment and pensions
Spain's Supreme Court rules on workers' legal representative status in disciplinary dismissal
The chamber concluded that there has been no infringement of freedom of association
30/06/2023
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2m
Employment and pensions
The Supreme Court reiterates the importance of agreeing in detail on the aspects relating to the probationary period in employment contracts
The Supreme Court considers the termination of a contract for failure to pass the probationary period to be unfair dismissal...
31/05/2023
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2m
Employment and pensions
Spain removes the obligation to submit sick leave reports to the company
Changes aim to improve the social protection of employees and guarantee adequate health care and economic benefits in the event...
27/04/2023
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2m
Employment and pensions
The right to a prior hearing in the disciplinary dismissal procedure
The High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands declared the disciplinary dismissal of a worker to be unlawful because...
27/03/2023
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2m
Employment and pensions
Dismissal of employees in a situation of sickness: new features introduced by the Integral Law for equal treatment and non-discrimination
The entry into force of Law 15/2022, of 12 July, on equal treatment and non-discrimination, expressly introduces illness as a...
29/09/2022
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1m
Workforce Solutions
First judicial pronouncements on remote work agreements
After the intense expansion of remote work in the Spanish labor market, accelerated to a great extent by the Covid...
31/05/2022
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4m
Future of work
Effects of the labour reform in the field of collective bargaining
Royal Decree-Law 32/2021 of 28 December has introduced changes in the area of collective bargaining as part of its overall...
28/04/2022
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3m
Employment and pensions
Main features of Royal Decree 902/2020, of 13 October, on equal pay for women and men
The principle of equal pay and remuneration for men and women has acquired a leading role in the field of...
25/03/2021
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3m
Employment and pensions
Can companies force their staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19?
Initially, after the first reports of the pandemic, we wondered whether companies could implement mandatory temperature controls at the entrances...
24/12/2020
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3m
Employment and pensions
An employee's permanent disability as a cause for termination or suspension of the employment contract
The permanent disablement or serious invalidity of an employee may lead either to the termination of the employment contract on...
18/12/2018
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3m
