The Spanish government has launched a call for €9.6 million in subsidies for industrial SMEs to test the four-day working week. Companies that apply will be eligible for public funding of up to 90% of their reduced working time plan, with a maximum of €200,000 per company. With these figures, if all grants were awarded at the maximum amount, the number of companies chosen for the pilot project would be…
Fernando González Urbaneja | Ferrovial’s shareholders’ meeting passed with evident calm and a consensus materialised in 76% attendance and 93% of votes in favour of the decision to move the company’s headquarters to the Netherlands. All the dust that has swirled around the agreement to move the company’s head office has come to nothing for the company’s shareholders, who have validated the board’s proposal without criticism and without any rejection…
Intermoney: Ferrovial’s Shareholders’ Meeting will debate and vote today on the Board of Directors’ proposal to move its registered office to the Netherlands, in order to be able to list on Wall Street without having to resort to ADRs. The proposal, announced on 28 February, has caused considerable political turmoil. In the event that the measure is approved, shareholders who oppose it could exercise their right of separation by selling…
UGT staff will take to the streets today in several autonomous communities – Andalusia, the Balearic Islands, Madrid, Valencia, the Basque Country, Extremadura and La Rioja – to demand that the union unblock the negotiation of its framework collective agreement, which expired in 2020 and has been extended in ‘ultraactividad‘ (automatic extension period provided for in collective agreements while a new one is being negotiated) since then. The union is…
Spain is currently the second country in the world with the second highest number of unpaid awards – amounting to 645 million euros – after Venezuela and ahead of Russia. The High Court of Australia has unanimously dismissed an appeal filed by Spain in an international dispute over awards issued by the ICSID, the World Bank’s arbitration body, linked to cuts made to renewables. As a result, some of Spain’s…
Alphavalue / Divacons | FCC Ambito, a subsidiary of FCC Servicios Medio Ambiente, and Iberdrola, through its Perseo Venture Builder programme, will work with Glencore to provide industrial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling solutions in the Iberian Peninsula through the development of a specialised facility, the three companies announced yesterday. At the factory, whose location is yet to be defined, these energy storage devices could find a second life. Recycling of battery…
Fernando González Urbaneja | It is not often that a government directly confronts a business decision taken by a responsible collegiate body. And when it does happen, it is not often that the government ends up getting fleeced. The relationship of political power with any business, no matter how large, is usually asymmetrical, in favour of the executive. Businessmen avoid confrontation because even if they achieve their aims, they always…
Alphavalue / Divacons | Last week the Spanish hotel chain was very optimistic about what will happen this Easter, in which after the recovery of tourism at international level, Meliã expects to improve the sales data recorded in 2019 by more than 20%. Particularly noteworthy are some national destinations such as the Canary Islands, where hotels have improved their occupancy and reached historic average figures. This was revealed by Meliã’s…
Taxpayers face the 2022 income tax return campaign that starts today with the decrease in real salary caused by the generalised rise in prices (8.5% in 2022) and the cold progressivity of the Personal Income Tax (IRPF), that is, what they are going to have to pay extra for the rise in salaries, despite having a lower real salary. Deflating the personal income tax brackets by 8.5% to adjust them…
Imports of natural gas to Spain from Russia soared by 151.4% in February compared to the same month last year, reaching 5,465 gigawatt hours (GWh), according to data from the Corporation of Strategic Reserves of Petroleum Products (Cores). Russia is the third largest supplier of natural gas to Spain, with 17.2% of the total for the month. However, the volume of gas from Russia to the country was lower than…