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A legal document filed by a company to temporarily reduce working hours, suspend employment contracts, or implement other measures to address economic difficulties, such as a crisis or restructuring.
El gobierno aprobó el expediente de regulación temporal de empleo para evitar despidos masivos.
The government approved the temporary employment regulation file to prevent mass layoffs.
This is a formal legal procedure in Spain, regulated by the Workers' Statute (Estatuto de los Trabajadores).
This term is specific to Spanish labor law and is not commonly used in other Spanish-speaking countries.
The measures must be temporary and cannot be used indefinitely.
Derived from Spanish legal terminology: 'expediente' (file/document), 'regulación' (regulation), 'temporal' (temporary), and 'empleo' (employment).
Commonly abbreviated as 'ERTE' in Spanish. This procedure is temporary and must be justified by economic, technical, organizational, or production-related reasons.