The norm contemplates the extension of the baby check of 100 euros and permits of up to nine days for the care of a cohabitant or family member
PSOE Y United We Can have finally managed to unblock the last stumbling blocks around the family law, which will foreseeably be approved, in the first round, this Tuesday by the Council of Ministers, according to sources from Social Rights. The law was ready to be studied by the Ministerial Cabinet on November 29 but, according to the proposing ministerIone Belarrathe socialist wing of the Government again delayed its approval “with incomprehensible arguments” and in a climate, at that time, of high tension due to the reductions in sentences caused by the ‘law yes is yes’ and the clash around the ‘trans law’.
Sources from the Ministry of Social rights confirm that this time, the Government will study one of the star laws of United We Can, which contains financial aid and to facilitate reconciliation and recognizes family diversity but which arrives so late to the Council of Ministers that runs the risk of not coming into force this legislature, since there is barely a year left for the general elections and legal projects, unless they are processed urgently, take months or years to see the light.
What will come into force on January 1 is the extension of the help of 100 euros per child that working mothers receive until the child turns three and that the 2023 budget project extends to unemployed mothers or who have worked at least 30 days since birth. In the budget negotiation, the government partners agreed that the family law, which contains this measure, be approved in October, but this deadline was also blown up, according to Unidas Podemos, due to the “reluctance“of the Ministry of Tax authorities.
paid leave
In transposition of a European directive, the family law incorporates paid leaves of up to nine days per year for the care of a relative of up to the second degree of consanguinity or a cohabitant. Currently, the Workers’ Statute allows two days for death, accident or serious illness of relatives, but the collective agreement can extend the days of leave.
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At the same time, the law equates the single parent families with two children with large families, but leaves out single parents who have only one child, that is, 70% of single-parent households, as denounced by the associations of those affected.
Likewise, the norm creates a parental leave of eight weeks which may be enjoyed discontinuously or continuously until the minor reaches the age of eight, but this sick leave is not paid. And neither has the extension of the permissions after birth or adoption to a total of 24 weeks, compared to the current 16 for each parent, which was the initial claim of United We Can.