Cárdenas Del Rey, LuisVillanueva Cortés, Paloma2024-01-312024-01-312023Cárdenas, L. and Villanueva, P. (2023), "Labour policy in the face of the COVID-19 socio-economic crisis in Spain: institutional change and social pacts", Employee Relations, Vol. 45 No. 2, pp. 437-456. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-06-2021-02610142-545510.1108/ER-06-2021-0261https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/97133This study aims to analyse the institutional changes in the Spanish labour market in the light of the measures introduced to support workers during the COVID-19 crisis. Applying the theoretical framework the authors’ hypothesis is that the labour policy response to the crisis provoked by COVID-19 in Spain has ranged from strategy of preservation of the social democratic coalition to the anti-bourgeois bloc coalition with a greater presence of social pacts and the support of the social partners.engjournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.1108/ER-06-2021-0261https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ER-06-2021-0261/full/htmlrestricted accessE24J08J50COVID-19Labour policiesInstitutional changeSpainSocial pactsTrabajo5308 Economía General