Employment Alert: Coronavirus, National Health Service and Employment Issues

Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, of 17 March, on extraordinary urgent measures to face the economic and social impact of COVID-19. 

The annotated legislation regulates many different aspects of the country’s operation affected by coronavirus, so this comment will focus on the main measures taken by the government in labour and National Health Service matters. In the current context, the above rule expands the measures already taken with a far-reaching and large economic and social package, with the aim of helping to avoid a prolonged economic impact beyond the health crisis, giving priority to the protection of families, the self-employed and companies most directly affected.