Firms' financial struggles 'no excuse' for not paying workers on time, Supreme Court rules
Sunday, April 20, 2014 @ 6:08 PM
COMPANIES struggling financially have no excuse not to pay employees' wages, nor to pay them late, the Supreme Court has ruled.Under Article 50 of the Workers' Statute, salaries are sacred and a firm may not use its own financial difficulties to accumulate months of non-payment to its staff.
A situation that has affected many workers in Spain since the start of the economic crisis – including, famously, employees of the now-defunct transatlantic carrier Air Comet, who protested in the street after they had been working for eight months with no pay – many companies have used the state of the country's economy as a pretext even when they could have paid staff on time, effectively financing themselves by delaying salaries.
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