https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Despite opposition from companies and business associations, Spain’s left-wing coalition government has confirmed that the country's minimum wage will be increased up to €1,000 gross over 14 payments, applicable from January 2022.  https://www.thelocal.es/20220209/confirmed-spain-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-e1000 Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:17:36 +0100 confirmed-spain-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-e1000 Since April 14th 2021, all businesses in Spain have to publish their workers' salaries, a measure aimed at closing the country's gender pay gap. Here's how the salary register is done, how equal pay audits will be carried out and what the fines are for not abiding by the new law. https://www.thelocal.es/20210429/why-companies-in-spain-must-now-make-their-employees-salaries-public Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:08:35 +0200 why-companies-in-spain-must-now-make-their-employees-salaries-public Six out of ten Spaniards aged 18 to 30 say they are considering leaving Spain for work, but very few have actually spent any significant amount of time overseas, the results of a new survey reveal. https://www.thelocal.es/20141124/six-out-of-ten-young-spaniards-would-leave-spain-for-work Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:46:00 +0100 six-out-of-ten-young-spaniards-would-leave-spain-for-work Just over a third of all Spanish employees earned the country's minimum wage of €9,034 ($11,200) in 2013, with almost all workers under 25 having to make do with that amount, official figures published on Thursday show. https://www.thelocal.es/20141121/one-third-of-spanish-workers-on-minimum-wage-employment-spain Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:19:00 +0100 one-third-of-spanish-workers-on-minimum-wage-employment-spain Spain had twice as many people on the minimum wage (€641/$841) or below in 2012 than it did eight years before, a government study reveals. https://www.thelocal.es/20140626/spains-minimum-wage-army-doubles Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:29:05 +0200 spains-minimum-wage-army-doubles A Basque city has been named the most expensive city in Spain with living costs nearly a third higher than the national average, a price comparison study reveals. https://www.thelocal.es/20140515/san-sebastin-named-spains-priciest-city Thu, 15 May 2014 15:01:46 +0200 san-sebastin-named-spains-priciest-city Spaniards earn more than three times the global median income of $2,920 (€2,120), new research shows, but still pocket a median of only $7,284 a year. https://www.thelocal.es/20131217/spain-on-world-rich-list Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:07:00 +0100 spain-on-world-rich-list Fearful of joining the one in four workers out of a job, Spanish employees are accepting ever deeper salary cuts as they pay the price of the economy's growing competitiveness. https://www.thelocal.es/20131126/spains-workers-pay-high-price-for-recovery Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:30:00 +0100 spains-workers-pay-high-price-for-recovery Spanish police in Majorca have arrested a businessman in Majorca who was paying two of his staff just €1.17 ($1.34) an hour. https://www.thelocal.es/20131112/121-an-hour-man-arrested-for-paying-slave-wages Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:07:00 +0100 121-an-hour-man-arrested-for-paying-slave-wages