Abstract

The Author describes the evolution of the model of discipline for the choice of redundant workers in Spain. He shows how in the past the choice of workers to be made redundant was regulated by law; the employer had at the time very little discretionary powers. With the enactment of the Estatuto de los Trabajadores, the complex system of criteria of choice of redundant workers was dismantled. In this context, the Author analyses which are the new limits to the discretionary powers of the employer in the hypothesis of redundancy.