Legal and administrative news
Legal and administrative news from Spain
Every day we pick one update from the BOE (Spain's Official State Gazette), one grant call or one legal change that affects individuals, the self-employed or companies, and explain what it means, from when, and what you can do now.
The latest story · BOE (Official State Gazette)Menopause and gender-based violence sick leave in Spain: no prior contributions from 1 December 2026Real Decreto-ley 31/2026 (a royal decree-law) creates two new special types of sick leave for working women in Spain: for limiting secondary menopausal disorders and for injuries caused by gender-based violence. From 1 December 2026 they are paid from the day after leave starts, with no minimum contribution period. · Seguridad Social (social security)Read the story →Archive
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October 2026
· Seguridad Social (social security)Widow's pension and gender violence: Spain's Supreme Court bars capping it at spousal maintenanceIn a judgment of 9 October 2026, the full Social Chamber of Spain's Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court) held that Social Security cannot reduce the widow's pension of a divorced or separated woman who is a gender violence victim to the amount of the compensatory pension she received.
· Consumer rightsSpain's car cartel: Supreme Court raises compensation to 5% and makes Stellantis pay for ChevroletsSpain's Supreme Court has raised the compensation for buyers affected by the car cartel fined by the CNMC (the Spanish competition authority) in 2015 from 2% to 5% of the purchase price, plus interest, and has ordered Stellantis to pay for Chevrolet cars too, another brand that took part in the cartel.