Labour experts believe that making the cost of dismissal more expensive will slow down job creation and the wealth of companies.

There is already an open debate in our society on severance pay, in which UGT, through a recent report by professors at the University of Jaén in collaboration with the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid, denounces that unfair dismissal "is exercised in a not infrequent and arbitrary manner".

Alberto Novoa, labour partner at RocaJunyent, considers that the possibility of increasing compensation for unfair dismissal, in his opinion, is not the right option at this time for several reasons, and concludes by pointing out that "as a final reflection, in my opinion, in the event that compensation for dismissal is finally increased, what will happen is that there will be less investment and less job creation".

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