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A 3 page paper. The scenario is that the employer terminated a woman's limited-term contract when he learned she was pregnant. The essay considers the laws regarding this type of contract in the EU and in Spain, including reasons for dismissal and makes a recommendation to the employer. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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as the fixed term contract, with 35 percent of all employment contracts being fixed term, Spain led the European Union in this practice (Weber, 1999). The prevalence of this type
of employment arrangement was the catalyst for the European Union to new regulations regarding the rights of employees (Weber, 1999). One of the main purposes of these new regulations was
to assure non-discrimination, another purpose was to prevent employers from abusing this type of contract (Weber, 1999). In that same year, 1999, Spain adopted new regulations, Law 39/1999, intended to
"promote the reconciliation of work and family life of employed persons" (European industrial relations observatory on-line, 1999). Amendments were made to a number of employment regulations that are found in
different and diverse laws, including the General Social Security Act (European industrial relations observatory on-line, 1999). The catalysts for these changes were directly related to the "unfavourable position of Spanish
women in the labour market" (European industrial relations observatory on-line, 1999). One of the specific changes made had to do with the "legal employment guarantees for expectant and new mothers"
(European industrial relations observatory on-line, 1999). Women on maternity leave are to receive the same compensatory benefits as a person injured on the job, which was 100 percent of their
pay during maternity leave (European industrial relations observatory on-line, 1999). Every member of the European Union is subject to their own national laws but also to the laws of the
European Commission. A case was heard by the European Court of Justice that had to do with limited term contracts in German for persons over the age of 52 (Ballering,
2005) in which the Advocate General ruled that Germany was in fact discriminating against persons over this age by limiting employment contracts to two or less years (Ballering, 2005). While
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