Professor Francisca Ferrando holds a PhD in Law and is a Professor at the University of Murcia (UM), specialising in research and teaching in Labour Law and Social Security. She is a researcher at the Chairs of Social Economy, Labour Relations, and Identity and Digital Rights at UM.
Since 2017, she has served as Director of the Social Action Platform at UM and is a member of the Platform for Economic Democracy (PxDE). Additionally, she is a member of the editorial board of Net21.org, a working group focused on developing a New Statute for Workers in the 21st Century.
She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journals Anales del Derecho and iQual at UM. Since 2008, she has acted as an arbitrator in trade union elections for the appointment of employee representatives within companies. In 2022, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law at UM.
Professor Ferrando has participated in numerous regional, national, and international research projects and has supervised six doctoral theses. She has published approximately 200 academic works, with her principal areas of research including labour flexibility measures, dismissal, trade union law and collective labour relations, workplace equality and non-discrimination, social economy, social security benefits, and labour litigation.
Among her most recent publications are:
- “Los derechos de información relacionados con el uso de la inteligencia artificial en el ámbito laboral” (The Rights to Information Related to the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace), Jueces para la Democracia, No. 108, 2023.
- “Libertad de expresión en el ámbito sindical e injerencia empresarial: a propósito de la STC 22/2023, de 27 de marzo de 2023” (Freedom of Expression in the Trade Union Sphere and Employer Interference: Regarding STC 22/2023, 27 March 2023), Revista de Derecho Social, No. 103, 2023.
- “Interés legítimo y procesal del sindicato más allá del orden social de la jurisdicción” (Legal standing and Procedural Interest of the Union Beyond the Social Jurisdiction), Documentación Laboral, No. 127, 2022.
- “El pago único de las prestaciones de desempleo y cese de actividad como instrumento al servicio del relevo generacional en cooperativas y sociedades laborales” (The Lump-Sum Payment of Unemployment and Business Cessation Benefits as a Tool for Generational Change in Cooperatives and Worker-Owned Companies), in Relevo Generacional en Cooperativas y Sociedades Laborales, Aranzadi, 2024.
- “Negociación colectiva para el trabajo autónomo” (Collective Bargaining for Self-Employed Work), in Trabajo Autónomo: Aspectos Fiscales, Negociación Colectiva, Salud Laboral, Conciliación y Protección Social, Aranzadi, 2023.
- “El recurso a las cooperativas de trabajo asociado como mecanismo de subcontratación en la economía de plataformas” (The Use of Worker Cooperatives as a Subcontracting Mechanism in the Platform Economy), in Digitalización de la Actividad Societaria de Cooperativas y Sociedades Laborales, Aranzadi, 2021.
- Gómez Gordillo, R., Ferrando García, F.M., and López Aniorte, M.C., Guía de la Negociación Colectiva 2023(Guide to Collective Bargaining 2023), Ministry of Labour and Social Economy, Subdirectorate-General for Reports, Appeals, and Publications, 2023.
- Lecciones de Derecho Colectivo del Trabajo. Grado en Derecho. Grado en Relaciones Laborales y Recursos Humanos (Lessons on Collective Labour Law: Degree in Law, Degree in Labour Relations and Human Resources), Laborum, 2022.
Websites:
- https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=190239
- https://portalinvestigacion.um.es/investigadores/332039/detalle
- https://www.net21.org/
E-mail: franferr@um.es