Biography
Antonio Pedrajas is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Manging Partner of Abdón Pedrajas (www.abdonpedrajas.com), a prestigious employment law boutique, where he has developed his career as a labor lawyer since 2001. He was previously a lawyer in the labor area of Deloitte Spain.
He regularly advises in judicial and non-judicial matters to numerous national and multinational companies from different sectors of activity (banking, insurance, energy, distribution, tourism, services, media, new technologies, etc.).
He has extensive experience in the design and implementation of labor aspects in company transmission operations or business units, collective dismissals, negotiation of collective agreements, collective files of substantial modification of working conditions, non-applicable agreements or, among other aspects, advice to senior managers and professional athletes. He has directed hundreds of judicial proceedings in all instances, including the National Court and the Supreme Court.
He is also a founding partner of ELLINT (Employment & Labor Lawyers International - www.ellint.net), a network of employment boutiques with presence in Spain, Italy, Holland, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Rumania and China where more than 250 labor lawyers provide services.
He combines his professional activity as a lawyer with teaching, being Professor of Labor Law at CUNEF University.
Academic training
Degree in Law. University San Pablo CEU.
Master in Labor Legal Advice. Center for Garrigues Studies.
PhD Labor Law. Complutense University of Madrid.
Career path
Labor lawyer practicing with more than 20 years of professional experience, having assumed the legal direction in hundreds of judicial and non-judicial matters, being an advisor to numerous national and multinational companies.
Since 2001 he is a lawyer in Abdón Pedrajas, currently Managing Partner of the firm. The Firm is a reference at national and international level in labor matters, providing services about 50 labor lawyers in their offices in Madrid and Barcelona.
In 2013 he founded ELLINT (Employment & Labor Lawyers International), a network of employment boutiques with a presence in 12 European countries, from where he provides transnational services to various multinational groups.
Antonio Pedrajas combines professional practice with teaching, being Professor of Labor Law at CUNEF University.
PhD student at the UCM, he teaches regularly in numerous seminars, courses and forums specialized in labor matters.
Languages
Spanish, English and French.
Best Lawyer International.- Employment Law.- (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).
Member of the National Board of Directors of the National Association of Labor Lawyers (ASNALA).
Member of the Best Lawyers Advisory Board.
Member of the Advisory Council of Actualidad Laboral.
Member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA).
Member of the Spanish Association of Labor and Social Security Law. (AEDTSS).
Contratas y empresas de trabajo temporal: responsabilidades. - Editorial Tirant lo Blanch Colección Laboral Práctico (2006).
Grupos de empresas y subrogación empresarial respecto a unidades productivas autónomas en el seno del grupo. - Editorial La Ley - Anuario Laboral Abogados 2007.
Nuevas tecnologías al servicio de deberes empresariales. Posibilidad de que la empresa cumpla la obligación de documentar el abono del salario a través de su intranet sin entrega física de nóminas. - Editorial La Ley - Anuario Laboral para Abogados 2009.
Acerca de si la negociación y conclusión de un pacto extraestatutario puede constituir una práctica antisindical. - Editorial La Ley - Anuario Laboral para Abogados 2010.
Derechos Fundamentales de la persona del trabajador y autonomía privada. - Libro homenaje el Profesor Abdón Pedrajas Moreno - Editorial Tirant lo Blanc (2012).
Invitación empresarial a dimitir como alternativa al ejercicio de actuaciones disciplinarias laborales y otras posibles acciones legales frente al trabajador. - Editorial La Ley Anuario Laboral para Abogados 2012.
La modificación e inaplicación de las condiciones de trabajo.- Editorial Tirant lo Blanc Colección Laboral Práctico (2013).
Modificación de los sistemas de retribución variable. Memento Experto Retribución Variable Ediciones Francis Lefebvre (2013).
Sobre la extinción de contratos de obra o servicio por reducción o anulación parcial de la contrata mercantil de adscripción (Editorial La Ley Anuario Laboral para Abogados 2015).
Descanso semanal, fiestas y permisos - Comentarios al Estatuto de los Trabajadores - Libro Homenaje a Tomás Sala Franco - Editorial Tirant lo Blanc (2016).