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FOUR out of 10 workers in Spain receive no compensation for their overtime.

A study carried out by Infojobs and Adecco exposed businesses in Spain for not complying with the regulations placed by the Spanish Government in 2019.

The latest royal decree states that full-time employees can only work up to 80 hours of overtime a year.

It also enforces companies to monitor and register their employees working time and to pay them for all the extra hours worked.

Those organisations not complying with these policies could face fines of up to €6,000.

However, the study shows that most companies ignored these regulations last year.

In 2022, over half of the workers (53%) did more hours than their theoretical annual working time.

BRITISH telecoms group Vodafone could pull out of Spain and has hired the Morgan Stanley investment bank to review its options in the country, according to Spanish media reports. Spain, which comprises around 9% of global operations, was Vodafone’s worst-performing region in the 2023 financial year, with service revenue growth falling by 5.4% - the highest in any of the company’s markets. The fall was blamed on ‘continued price

Morocco links grow with cultural tip to Tangier

GIBRALTAR is ramping up cultural and business links with the Moroccan city of Tangier as the Rock moves ever closer to a possible hard frontier with Spain.

A group of around 20 cultural figures travelled to Tangier on a cultural weekend that included a music video presentation, art, cooking and writing workshops.

The Gibraltar Morocco Business Association (GMBA) officially opened its offices in the heart of Tangier, three years after originally planned because of the pandemic.

The deepening of contacts with Morocco comes as time runs out on talks for an EU treaty between UK and Spain over Gibraltar. Minister for Culture John

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