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Cooperatives and worker-owned companies

What are the worker-hiring arrangements for worker-owned companies and cooperatives?

What regulations apply to unemployment benefit for cooperatives and worker-owned companies?

How are funds distributed within cooperatives?

What happens if a worker-owned company or a cooperative is not entered in the Register? Can business be started without registration?

How much might it cost to have a cooperative or a worker-owned company registered in the Register?

What steps must be taken to constitute a cooperative?

What is the difference between a first degree and a second degree cooperative?

Which deeds and documents must be recorded in the Registry of Worker-Owned Companies?

What has to be done to lose the condition of worker-owned company?

How is the work of members of a cooperative remunerated?

Launching new companies

I would like guidance on how to start my own business, what the procedure is, whether any grants are available etc. Where can I go to get that guidance?

Who can use the Company Creation Service?

Can people planning projects for not-for-profit entities, associations and foundations also ask the Company Creation Service for advice?

Can they charge me for the guidance they give?

Discrimination, sexual harassment and emotional harassment (mobbing) at work

I am a target for pressure and continual insults at work, and I've been feeling for a while now as if I were beginning to suffer depression. Am I a victim of mobbing? Who can I turn to? What can I do?

For months now, four of us employees have often been faced with propositions, sexual insinuations and offensive remarks by the company's manager. Is there anything we can do to put a stop to this? Is there any legal channel we can turn to in order to defend ourselves from these practices without losing our jobs?

The company dismissed, on dubious grounds, two members of staff who had been very active in the workers' meetings and who were calling for trade-union elections to be held. Do the labour regulations offer any specific channel - through administrative sanctions and/or court action - for challenging those dismissals?

Equal opportunities in employment

I will soon be a father. How does Law 3/2007 of 22 March on effective equality for men and women affect me?

I am the owner of a business. I would like to know how Law 3/2007 of 22 March on effective equality for men and women affects me in terms of paying Social Security contributions during my employees' maternity and paternity leave periods.

I have a 6-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son. Can I shorten my working day to look after them? How does Law 3/2007 of 22 March on effective equality for men and women cover reconciling one's private life with one's working life?

How does Law 3/2007, of 22 March on effective equality for men and women affect the civil service?

How does Law 3/2007 of 22 March affect public subsidies?

Employment

What office of the Employment Service of Catalonia do I need to visit to register as a job seeker?

I am a self-employed worker. How can I go about getting my remaining unemployment benefit paid as a lump sum for use as business capital?

I am a foreigner, living and working in Spain (with up-to-date residency and work permits), but I have become unemployed. Am I entitled to unemployment benefit?

What are the requirements for being paid unemployment benefit?

Having finished my university studies , I've been looking for work for a long time with no success, and I've never worked. Am I entitled to any financial support for being unemployed?

What are the requirements for getting my remaining unemployment benefit paid as a lump sum for use as business capital?

What income-related circumstances are compatible with collecting unemployment benefit?

What is DARDO?

Where must I go to "present", "stamp" or "renew the unemployment certificate" and at what time?

I have not gone to "present", "stamp" or "renew the unemployment certificate". What can happen to me?

I can not go to "present", "stamp" or "renew the unemployment certificate" on the due date

I am out of work. What requisites must I fulfil to claim unemployment benefits?

What documentation is required to claim for unemployment benefits?

I have just lost my job and want to claim for unemployment benefits. Must I be registered as unemployed?

What is the amount of unemployment benefits and how is it calculated?

How long does payment of unemployment benefits last?

When does payment of unemployment benefits begin? When will I begin to be paid unemployment benefits?

What work periods are taken into consideration for unemployment benefits?

What do I have to do to ask for lump sum payment of these unemployment benefits? What requisites must I fulfil?

What must I do to be registered as unemployed?

What must I do to ask for unemployment benefits?

What must I do to ask for a subsidy after the period of unemployment benefits has expired?

What must I do to cease being considered as unemployed and stop receiving unemployment benefits?

What must I do if I want to suspend unemployment benefits while participating in training courses, in cases of temporary incapacity, maternity, etc.?

What documentation do I need to be registered in an Unemployment Office?

What documentation do I need to ask for unemployment benefits?

Where can I ask for a certificate for...?

I have lost my job, what requisites must I fulfil to be paid unemployment benefits?

What situations are compatible with receiving unemployment benefits?

What situations are incompatible with receiving unemployment benefits?

What are the causes for suspension of unemployment benefits?

Where can I find employment offers?

What must I do to become a candidate or apply for a job offer?

What must I do to obtain more information about a job offer?

I would like to apply for an internship abroad. What information can I get from the Ministry?

What training is available for trainers?

I would like to know about the offer for training from collaborating centres. Where can I find this information?

Who can benefit from the training offered by SOC?

What type of training is offered by SOC?

How can I look for training courses?

What courses are available if I am working?

Where can I get more information about the courses?

What courses are available if I am not working?

What must I do to enrol in a training course?

Do the courses have any type of economic compensation?

Do these actions have any cost for students?

Can I participate in a training course if I am on sick leave?

Can I participate in a training course if I am retired?

I am a foreigner. Can I enrol in a occupational training course?

Occupational Risk Prevention

Can household insecticides be used in the workplace?

What are Health and Safety Committees?

Who are Occupational Risk Prevention Delegates?

What is the procedure for submitting a Notice of Building Work?

Can a private individual, rather than a company, carry out Occupational Risk Prevention audits?

Can an Independent Prevention Services body (SPA) also provide auditing services?

Labour Relations

I work in a company on the basis of an open-ended contract. An opportunity has come along that would give a boost to my professional profile and I was wondering if I had the right to request extended leave of absence.

What are the requirements for setting up a Temporary Employment Agency?

What duties do Temporary Employment Agencies have with respect to worker training?

What effect do collective redundancy procedures have for workers?

What are the features of the 'redundancy scheme' that must be drawn up with the collective redundancy procedure for a company with 50 or more employees?

Where can I find a copy of the Collective Labour Agreement applying to me?

I have decided to leave my present employer because another company has made me a more attractive offer. Do I have to give my present company advance notice?

What are the 2008 holidays in my town?

I've been dismissed from my job. What can I do about it?

Our company has a workforce of 103 people. Do current labour regulations oblige me to recruit a particular number of disabled workers?

I am a businessman and for organisational reasons I can not comply with reserving 2% of the jobs for contracting people with disabilities. I have heard that there are alternative measures. What are they?

What administrative bodies are competent for alternative measures inside and outside Catalonia?

Leisure-Time Residences

Who can apply to go to a Leisure-Time Residence?

If I ask for my residence award to be cancelled, do I get my money back?

Can I take my cat with me when I go to the Leisure-Time Residence?

I'd like to spend some time in Tarragona surrounded by nature. I've heard about the Rest and Holiday City in Tarragona.

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