Commentary on the sanction imposed by the AEPD in case EXP202411409: a fine of €120,000.00 for revealing the identity of the informant through an ethical channel. From the Internal Investigations teams, we often find ourselves in the position of managing… Read more

Molins’ Internal Investigations team presents a summary of year’s 2024 normative and case-law milestones on Internal Investigations. Download PDF

This publication comments on the Judgment of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (Social Division) No. 6779/2024 handed down on 23 September 2024. This judgment dismissed the appeal filed by the legal representation of an employee against the judgment… Read more

This publication comments on STSJ no. 1850/2024, dated July 23, issued by the First Section of the Fourth Chamber of the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country, which upheld an appeal filed by an employee against a judgment… Read more

Article 18 of the Workers’ Statute. Commentary on judgment (Social chamber), Secc. 1.ª, n.º 874/2024, of 5 June. This publication comments the judgment (social chamber), Secc. 1.ª, n.º 874/2024, of 5 June, which analyses the validity or nullity of the… Read more

Comments on STS (Sala de lo social), Secc. 1.ª, n. º 225/2024, of 6 February. In its recent ruling no. 225/2024 of 6 February, the First Section of the Fourth Chamber of the Supreme Court upheld the nullity of the… Read more

Molins’ Internal Investigations team presents a summary of year’s 2023 normative and case-law milestones on Internal Investigations. Download PDF

Comment to the Judgment of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid no.  405/2023, of 8 June, rapporteur Maria del Carmen Prieto Fernández. Subject matter: corporate control of WhatsApp conversations held by an employee on a corporate mobile phone. Scope… Read more

On 11 September 2023, the Constitutional Court handed down Ruling no. 92/2023. In this decision, the Court ruled on a request for defence which, according to the Court, is of particular constitutional importance in relation to the fundamental right to… Read more

Last July, ISO 37008 was published, consisting of a guide for conducting internal investigations in any kind of organization. The standard comes after the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/1937, on the protection of whistleblowers, in most of the countries of… Read more

On September 18, 2023, was published in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Resolution of September 14, 2023, under which the Catalan Competition Authority opens a public call for subsidies to finance Compliance programs aimed to prevent antitrust irregularities. The subsidies contemplated in this call are… Read more

Ethical channels have acquired great relevance since the recent and novel publication of Law 2/2023, of February 20, regulating the protection of persons who report regulatory infringements and the fight against corruption (hereinafter Law 2/2023). Although Law 2/2023 has encouraged… Read more

Just a week before the publication in Spain of Act 2/2023 of February 20th, 2023, regulating the protection of persons who report regulatory infringements and of fight against corruption, transposing Directive 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and Council of 23rd… Read more

Molins’ Internal Investigations team presents a summary of 2022, with a brief summary of the milestones set by the last exercise on private inquiries within the company. Although the discipline is still at its beginning in Spain, last year was… Read more