Spain: government halts all non-essential activities and bans redundancies resulting from consequences of the pandemic

On 29 March the Spanish government put the country into “hibernation” through a decree that only allows essential activities to continue, so as to limit the movement of people and therefore the spread of Covid-19. Under another decree, published the day before, dismissals for force majeure or objective reasons of an economic, technical, organisational or production-related nature, resulting from the impact of the coronavirus, will not be deemed justified as long as the health crisis lasts.