Employment law

Labour law specialist Víctor Arpa has revealed what happened recently to one of his clients with regards to her work contract

Various tricky situations can arise at work, some of which can end up in court. Reasons can range from breaches of, or non-compliance with agreements, dismissals or errors in the different procedures to be followed or in the contracts themselves.

In this regard, Víctor Arpa, a lawyer specialising in employment matters, denounced last month on social media a case he was tasked with defending. In the online rant he argued that such a situation is quite common in the hospitality sector in Spain.

"The situation in the hospitality sector is a real disgrace," he declared. He explained that one of his most recent cases involved defending a female employee who worked as a cook, but whose contract stated that she was a kitchen assistant, a much lower-ranked position, one to which she did not actually belong "in order to save money."

"Enough is enough. It's always the same in this sector. Waiters as bussers (table clearers), cooks as kitchen assistants," he exclaimed in the video. Indeed, he mentions the case of a restaurant with nine employees where all of them had contracts as 'assistants' of some category or other.

"My client is owed 4,200 euros for the difference in salary because she wasn't a kitchen assistant, she was a cook", he said. He also said that, in setting out his case to support his client, he asked who the employee was...

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