{"id":9030191,"date":"2022-02-16T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gremicat.es\/?p=17425"},"modified":"2022-02-16T00:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T23:00:31","slug":"clausula-penal-fijada-por-incumplimiento-de-pacto-de-no-competencia-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gremicat.es\/en\/clausula-penal-fijada-por-incumplimiento-de-pacto-de-no-competencia-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Cl\u00e1usula penal fijada por incumplimiento de pacto de no competencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 22px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El TS declara que es desproporcionada una cl\u00e1usula penal consistente en abonar el doble de lo percibido en caso de incumplimiento de un pacto de competencia postcontractual.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"texto_central\" style=\"clear: both; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify; height: 40px; font-size: 20px; color: #e4003c;\"><strong>\u00bfCu\u00e1ndo es excesiva la cl\u00e1usula penal fijada por incumplimiento de pacto de no competencia?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>El trabajador<\/strong>, que prestaba servicios para una empresa de alquiler de veh\u00edculos, <strong>percib\u00eda, adicionalmente a su salario, la cantidad de 13.000 euros anuales en compensaci\u00f3n por un pacto de no competencia postcontractual<\/strong>, que se extender\u00eda a los 6 meses siguientes a la extinci\u00f3n del contrato. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Se pacta una\u00a0cl\u00e1usula penal\u00a0que prev\u00e9 que, en caso de incumplimiento, el trabajador abone el doble de la cantidad percibida<\/strong>.\u00a0 El trabajador solicita su\u00a0baja voluntaria\u00a0en la empresa, iniciando una relaci\u00f3n laboral en otra del mismo sector. <strong>Durante la vigencia de la relaci\u00f3n hab\u00eda percibido un total 26.000 euros como compensaci\u00f3n.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>La empresa solicita al trabajador el cumplimiento de lo acordado en el pacto de no competencia y que se le condene a abonar a la empresa 52.000 euros<\/strong>, cantidad prevista en la cl\u00e1usula penal. <strong>Ante la negativa del trabajador, la empresa interpone demanda<\/strong> solicitando el\u00a0cumplimiento del pacto, que es estimada ante el juzgado de lo social. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En suplicaci\u00f3n, <strong>el TSJ reduce la cantidad a abonar por entenderla desproporcionada<\/strong>. No obstante, considera que la empresa ten\u00eda un efectivo inter\u00e9s industrial o comercial en el pacto y que la compensaci\u00f3n econ\u00f3mica era adecuada. <strong>La empresa interpone recurso de casaci\u00f3n para la<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0unificaci\u00f3n de doctrina.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>La\u00a0cuesti\u00f3n que se plantea\u00a0es la validez de una cl\u00e1usula penal acordada por las partes en el pacto de no competencia postcontractual<\/strong> consistente en que, en caso de incumplimiento, el trabajador abonar\u00eda el doble de lo percibido por este concepto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Para resolver este recurso <strong>el\u00a0TS\u00a0recuerda su\u00a0jurisprudencia<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>en la que considera que la compensaci\u00f3n econ\u00f3mica<\/strong> \u00abadecuada\u00bb a que se refiere el ET art.21.2 <strong>se proyecta tanto sobre la compensaci\u00f3n que ha de recibir el trabajador por la obligaci\u00f3n de no competencia postcontractual, como por la cantidad que haya de abonar este a la empresa en caso de incumplimiento del pacto. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asimismo, se\u00f1ala que, aunque el ET exime de tener que acreditar los da\u00f1os, <strong>no lo hace de la proporcionalidad que debe existir con la cantidad a devolver por el empleado.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En el\u00a0supuesto enjuiciado\u00a0<strong>el TS entiende que<\/strong>, a la vista las circunstancias concurrentes, <strong>la cantidad a reintegrar por el trabajador es desproporcionada respecto de la compensaci\u00f3n percibida por el empleado<\/strong>, por lo que aquella cantidad no ser\u00eda \u00abadecuada\u0094 Diferencia este supuesto de aqu\u00e9llos en los que el trabajador, tras causar baja voluntaria, constituye una sociedad que ofrece los mismos servicios que su antigua empleadora respecto de sus clientes y contactos; o aquellos supuestos en los que el incumplimiento del pacto de no competencia postcontractual suponga la paralela vulneraci\u00f3n del secreto empresarial (L 1\/2019).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Para ampliar esta informaci\u00f3n consulte con <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gremicat.es\/asesoria-laboral-barcelona\/\">Asesor\u00eda laboral<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El TS declara que es desproporcionada una cl\u00e1usula penal consistente en abonar el doble de lo percibido en caso de <span>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9030192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[868,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9030191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laboral","category-sin-categoria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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