The University hosts the second conference on Labor Law and Social Security for private non-profit Universities
05 | 11 | 2025
The need for a specific body of law in the university system that allows the development of its purposes in the exercise of University Autonomy, respecting the differences that these centers have among themselves; the hiring of research staff in the university environment after the labor reform and the Science Law; as well as the workshop registration and the time of work in the sector, were some of the issues that were addressed in the II workshop on Labor Law in Private Non-Profit Universities held recently at the headquarters of postgraduate program of the University of Navarra in Madrid.
The workshop, organized by the advisory service Juridical of the University of Navarra, counted in this edition with the partnership Labormatters Abogados, being integrated as a sectorial activity of the Labor Relations Observatory of the University of Navarra - Labormatters.
The session began with speeches by Fernando Domingo Oslé, practicing lawyer, founding member of the Spanish association for the Study of University Law (AEDUN), member of the Observatory's committee of experts and director of the advisory service Jurídica of the University of Navarra; and Guillermo L. Barrios Baudor, Full Professor of Labor Law and Social Security at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and member of the Observatory's board of directors.
Cristóbal Molina Navarrete, Full Professor in the specialization program of the University of Jaén and expert in the field of employment contracts in the scientific and university environment, then spoke and analyzed the management of the staff researcher after the disappearance of contracts for works and services and those specific to the university environment. Finally in this initial block, Juan Gil Plana, Senior Associate Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and substitute membe magistrate substitute membe in the Social conference room of the National Court, presented a summary of the most recent judicial doctrine in the field of university labor.
The workshop concluded with a roundtable on the management of labor relations in the university system and the existing legal-labor inequalities, which was moderated by Emilio Villardefrancos, practicing lawyer, Deputy Director of the Legal advisory service of the University of Navarra and member of the Observatory's committee of experts. Fernando Domingo Oslé, director of the Legal advisory service of the University of Navarra, participated in the debate, which, among other aspects, dealt with the non-discrimination between centers based on their ownership in the aspects common to all of them; Lourdes Meléndez Morillo-Velarde, professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and substitute membe magistrate substitute membe at the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid, who focused her speech on the registration of workshop and work time in non-profit universities; and Alfredo Aspra, practicing lawyer and partner director of Labormatters Abogados, member of the board of directors of the Observatory, who addressed the challenge of business decisions in "companies with tendency".