This eight-week permit is one of three new permits created with the Family Law
The Secretary of State for Employment and Social Economy, Joaqun Prez Rey, has ensured that the new parental leave The eight-week period contemplated by the Family Law and that parents may enjoy continuously or intermittently, until their child turns eight, will be paid.
“The eight-week parental leave, as you know, is an obligation that derives from the European norm, from the European Union directive and it is an obligation that naturally, since it has to be paid, that parental leave has to be paid, as as provided by this standard”, explained Prez Rey, this Tuesday, at a press conference.
In addition, he recalled that this European standard provides that states will have up to August 2024 to establish the appropriate compensation measures for that leave. Therefore, it has indicated that this is the final result that the proper transposition of the European directive has to lead to and that they are “within time to comply.”
This eight week leave is one of the three new permits created with the Family Law, promoted by the Ministry of Social Rights and which is now beginning its parliamentary process after having been approved in the second round by the Government.
Specifically, as dictated by law, they will be able to enjoy this parental leave all working peoplemen or women, for the care of a son, daughter or minor fostered for a period of more than one year, until the moment the minor turns 8 years old.
Along with this permit, the family law creates two others, one of them, for five days due to serious accident or illness, hospitalization or surgical intervention without hospitalization that requires home rest of the spouse, common-law partner or relatives up to the second degree by consanguinity. , or any cohabitant.
Another of the permits will be four days a year, which can be enjoyed by the hour, for “urgent or unexpected family reasons”, for example, when a father or mother is called from school because their child has become ill, as as the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has indicated on several occasions.
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