Piercing the corporate veil doctrine in labor matters: exequatur and delimitation problems of objective competence

Abstract

The Order of the Provincial Court of Madrid 9 March 2018 faces, in the field of exequa­tur, the intense debate dealing with the delimitation of jurisdiction between First Instance Courts and Commercial Courts. Based on an Argentine judgement that spreads the liability for wage debts to the social administrators of the Spanish head company of the Argentine subsidiary for which the plaintiffs worked, the Provincial Court outlines the blurred boundaries between commercial and labor matters in a case in which the ratio decidendi to condemn the social administrators has been the application of the multidisciplinary corporate veil doctrine.