Editor’s note: This article was first published in October 2010, on 2 October 2010. The linked PDF is Royal Decree-law 10/2010 of June 2010; the reform had by then been passed as Law 35/2010. Spain passed further labor reforms in 2012 and 2021.
For anyone who wants to study or read what Spain’s 2010 labor reform involves, you can download it free as a PDF from the BOE itself (the Boletín Oficial del Estado, Spain’s official state gazette). You can get it directly from this link.
After reading it, I’m still asking myself the same question I was asking before: I still don’t know who this labor reform benefits and, above all, what good it can do for a country. As I said in another article, every country that has taken measures like the ones we’re now heading towards has ended badly. If I remember correctly, the Crash of ’29 came about because of something similar, although it’s been a long time since I studied it and I may not be entirely right.
For a basic overview of what the labor reform involves, see this earlier article on the reform.
Featured image: Monika Flueckiger, World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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