Salvador Del Rey Guanter

Practicing attorney (member of the Madrid and Barcelona bar associations), President of the Cuatrecasas Institute for Legal Strategy on Human Resources and Partner in the Cuatrecasas Labour Law division. In November 2020, the European Commission named Prof. del Rey one of the European-wide experts to undertake a study on COVID-19's impact on labour relations (2020 - 2021 Delphi Project). In July 2020, he was chosen by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Commission as one of the experts to be included in the list of panellists specialising in conflict resolution in keeping with Annex 31-A of said agreement: Facility-Specific Rapid Response Labour Mechanism. Prof. del Rey also directed the Technos Project (2016-2019) carried out within the Cuatrecasas Institute which he presides. This project's key mission was to identify the changes new technologies were provoking within corporate organisational structures and to analyse the repercussions on the job market, that is, on employment, required qualifications, demands in terms of people management and the implications of all this for the regulatory framework, both specifically in terms of the job market as well as labour relation regulations. In September 2019, the project entered its second phase, Technos Project II (2019-2021), which aims to explore 20 specific topics in depth, all from a pragmatic focus, as well as those aspects which, based on the conclusions and results from Technos Project I reports, are especially important for digitalised firms or those currently undergoing digital transformation. From 2017 to 2019, he also directed the International Bar Association (IBA) Working Group which, in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), prepared a report on the future of work. He served as President of the IBA's Global Employment Institute from 2010 to 2015, as President of the Institute's Advisory Council from 2016 to 2019 and as Officer of the IBA's Legal Practice Division. He also served as a member of the Economic and Social Council (Consejo Económico y Social, CES) and participated in numerous expert committees to draft norms, including: a report on protections for self-employed workers forced to stop working involuntarily (2008); a report on the Statute Governing Self-employment (2004/2005); and a report on the Basic Statute Governing Public Administration Employment (2004/2005). In 2001, he was a member of the EU-wide group of experts charged with analysing the implementation of mediation and arbitration measures across Europe for labour-related conflicts with a transnational dimension. He joined the Esade School of Law (URL) faculty body in 2010 and serves as the Director of the Esade Labour Relations Forum.