Summary 2024. INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS
Molins’ Internal Investigations team presents a summary of year’s 2024 normative and case-law milestones on Internal Investigations. Download PDF
Validity of security camera recordings obtained without the prior communication and consent of workers and the Works Council
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
Court overturns whistleblower’s dismissal for reporting corrupt practices within the company
This publication analyses the ruling by the Social Court No. 11 of Seville, dated 14 May 2024, presided over by Judge Juan-Bosco Rite Zambrano, which declared a whistleblower’s dismissal null, deeming the termination of their contract as direct retaliation for… Read more
Lawfulness of the register of lockers or personal belongings of an employee
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
Summary 2023. INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS.
Molins’ Internal Investigations team presents a summary of year’s 2023 normative and case-law milestones on Internal Investigations. Download PDF
Corporate control of WhatsApp conversations and secrecy of communications
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
Limits to police video-surveillance as a valid source of evidence. Commentary on STC no. 92/2023.
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
The new ISO 37008: guide for internal investigations
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
SUMMARY 2022 | INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS
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