Yolanda Valdeolivas

Yolanda Valdeolivas has a Doctor of Law from the Autonomous University of Madrid and Professor of Labor and Social Security Law at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She joined Pérez-Llorca in 2022 as Of Counsel in the Labor practice.

Experience

Yolanda has more than 30 years of professional career. She stands out for her research and doctrinal work and for having held different positions of responsibility and management at the Autonomous University of Madrid, among which stands out Legal Advisor (1991-1995), Director of the Employment Guidance and Information Center (COIE). ) (1995-2002) and Dean of the Faculty of Law of said University (2014 and 2018).

After two years as Secretary of State for Employment (2018-2020), Yolanda returned to the University to continue her teaching and research work.

She is a mediator and arbitrator of the Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration Service (SIMA), member of Advisory or Editorial Councils of various scientific journals and evaluator of research projects in different public agencies.

Education

• 2011 Professor of Labor and Social Security Law, Autonomous University of Madrid 1992 Doctor of Law, Autonomous University of Madrid

Awards and Recognitions

• Best Lawyers®: Employee Benefits Law, Labor and Employment Law.

Publications

• Yolanda has collaborated in different publications and specialized magazines, being the author of six monographs, in addition to others published in co-authorship, and around a hundred articles in publishers of the highest prestige in the legal field.
• Other publications include: Conduct harmful to freedom of association. Madrid (CES), 1994. The substantial modification of working conditions agreed in a collective agreement. Madrid (CES), 1996. Occupational Risk Prevention Law and development regulations. Comments, jurisprudence, concordances, doctrine. Madrid (COLEX), 2002 (in collaboration with G. Tudela). Occupational health and safety in collective bargaining. Madrid (Ministry of Labor and Immigration), 2009 (in collaboration with G. Tudela). Insurance and social protection of professional risks. Analysis in light of corporate responsibility in preventive matters. Madrid (Bomarzo), 2012. Collaborations in magazines and collective works: "Directives as an instrument of social policy and their relationship with the Spanish labor law", Magazine of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, International and Community Social Law, 1999, no. 17. "The execution of final dismissal sentences", in AA.VV., The labor process. Studies in homage to Professor Luis Enrique de la Villa Gil. Valladolid (Lex Nova), 2001, pp. 857 to 906. "The impact of discrimination in employment based on gender on the retirement pension", in AA.VV., Retirement Treaty: Tribute to Professor Luis Enrique de la Villa Gil. Madrid (Iustel), 2007, pp. 1501 to 1530. "Liability for damages in social security due to occupational risks", in AA.VV., Civil liability for damages in labor relations. XXIII National Congress of Labor and Social Security Law. Madrid (Cinca), 2013 "Social dialogue in the European Union and collective bargaining at the European level: potential, difficulties and results", Labor Documentation, 2021, no. 122, Vol. I, pp. 35-47. "Labor Law: Quo vadis?", in C. SÁEZ, F NAVARRO and P. GÓMEZ CABALLERO (Coords.), The challenges of Labor Law in the face of social and economic change. Book in tribute to Federico Durán López (ISBN 978-84-9890-412-3). Madrid (Iustel), 2021, pp. 149-162. "Unemployment and social protection in a pandemic (and post-pandemic)", in B. GREGORACI and F. VELASCO (Coords.), Law and policy in the face of the pandemic: reactions and transformations. Volume II. Reactions and transformations in Private Law, UAM Law School Yearbook (ISSN 1575-8427), 2021, no. extraordinary, pp. 341-364. "Gender wage gap and collective bargaining" in J. CRUZ, E. GONZÁLEZ-POSADA and Mª.L. MOLERO, Collective bargaining as a central institution of the labor relations system. Studies in Tribute to Professor Fernando Valdés Dal-Ré (ISBN 978-84-18330-51-3). Albacete (Bomarzo), 2021, pp. 439-458. "Safe and healthy work: centrality in the international and European acquis in social matters and responses to the transformations of the 21st century", Magazine of the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy (ISSN 2660-4655), 2021, no. 151, pp. 195-225.