This workshop is available in Spanish
False Self-Employed in Healthcare: Questions and Answers
The SINEWS Transition Model, a Success Story
This is a practical, intensive 2-hour training aimed at frontline professionals in private healthcare settings: nurses, healthcare assistants, and receptionists. Through self-awareness exercises, theoretical frameworks, and role-playing activities based on real-life scenarios, participants learn to identify their own emotional triggers, understand the causes behind challenging patient behaviour, and apply concrete strategies to handle the most common conflicts — from the anxious patient or the one who questions the professional’s competence, to complaints about waiting times, billing issues, or verbal aggression.
How does a Labor Inspection work? Does an employee need to file a complaint for the inspection authority to act in the event of a dispute? Are there random unannounced inspections?
- Myths about false self-employment (what clinics think makes someone a false self-employed worker — but is actually FALSE).
- What are the true criteria for defining a false self-employed worker?
- What are the consequences if an inspection determines that some or all employees are falsely classified as self-employed?
- Genuine self-employed workers: Do they actually exist, or are they like unicorns? Requirements that a working relationship with a collaborator must meet for an inspection to conclude, without any doubt, that the professional is truly and genuinely self-employed.
Are the options we’ve heard about real solutions?
- Making professionals "partners" by selling or transferring a minimal share of the company's equity to them.
- Issuing invoices for office rental.
- What are the different rights and obligations of self-employed vs. employed workers (from the employee's perspective)?
- How do employment contracts change the rights and obligations of the company (from the clinic's perspective)?
- Can my self-employed workers claim an employment relationship?
Transition to employment contracts:
- Can a collaborator claim a number of hours corresponding to their actual current availability for the clinic, whether or not those hours were worked?
- Are they entitled to have their seniority recognized from the point of the transition?
- Is it enough to make an offer that complies with the collective bargaining agreement? Is there an obligation to maintain the annual salary and cover social security costs?
- What happens if an employee refuses to change the terms of their working relationship?
- How did SINEWS carry out its transition? What were the main challenges and what were the solutions? What advantages and disadvantages has the change brought?
Workshop Details
These are some of the questions that Álvaro Rodríguez de la Calle, Ignacio Peyró García, and I, Orlanda Varela González, will be answering in an intensive 5-hour session on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM. You will leave with a clear understanding of the issues, a successful model for transitioning to an employment relationship, and the alternatives available for staying compliant if you choose to continue with a commercial model and «genuinely» self-employed workers.
- Where: In person at SINEWS MTI, Calle Sagasta 16 (ground floor), and also ONLINE (live stream)
- Capacity: Maximum 20 people (to prioritize interaction with participants)
- Price: €450 per person
- Companies: 10% discount for 2–4 people; 20% discount for 5 or more people
- FUNDAE-subsidizable. Find out here if your company has credit to cover this training: https://empresas.fundae.es/Lanzadera
- Pre-registration by email at: info@sinews.es, strictly in chronological order.
The training may be funded through FUNDAE (Fundación Estatal para la Formación en el Empleo). To manage this funding and learn about the applicable requirements, interested parties must specify this request at the time of contact, at which point they will be provided with all the necessary information and support to complete the process.
- Next date for this training to take place at Sinews MTI: Friday, September 11, from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm
Division of Medicine
Director of SINEWS MTI
Founding Partner
Psychiatrist
Children, adolescents and adults
Languages: English and Spanish