Work aspects of the bankruptcy process, focusing on the collective termination of contracts of employment

Abstract

Having passed more than five years from the implementation of the Insolvency Law, the current study aims to look over the main problems that this law has raised in the work environment, specially in the collective termination of the contracts of employment. This paper is mainly practical and, for this purpose, an attempt has been made to compile the more significant rulings and writs, avoiding, as far as possible, the doctrinal criteria. This is a hard issue that binds both social and commercial law, disciplines which are based on different principles. That makes the interpretation of the law much more difficult, specially for the lawyers specializing in labour law. However, there is no doubt about its importance nowadays, due to the noteworthy increase in the number of bankruptcy processes, which turns into an increase in the number of collective terminations of contracts ruled by insolvency regulations.