Social Security for foreign workers: cancellation or validity of the registration?

Commentary on Supreme Court ruling, Contentious-Administrative Chamber, 1744/2020, of December 16

Abstract

The relationship between immigration and inclusive citizenship is posing multiple problems when it comes to access to Social Security rights for immigrants. It is based on respect for the principle of real equality of treatment in the allocation of such rights and, logically, counteracting recent trends towards lowering standards that have been laboriously achieved. Along these lines, Supreme Court ruling of 16 December 2020 touches on a transcendental issue that has generated enormous conflict, such as the maintenance of the acts of framing produced in the Social Security system in respect of foreign workers who lack work and residence permits when there has been an employment relationship with one or more employers.