The purple formation appreciates attempts to modify the permit for workers to care for seven-day family members
MADRID, 28 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The preliminary draft of the Family Law will not be approved this Monday in the Council of Ministers, the last of the month of October, and the Ministry of Social Rights attributes it to the fact that the Treasury raises resistance to remove it in the “agreed terms”.
As sources from this department have explained to Europa Press, the agreement between the coalition partners for the General Budgets established that the norm had to be validated during the month of October, but finally it was delayed and they blamed the socialist part for it.
Last Monday, the purple formation warned at a press conference that it saw a “blockade” situation and criticized some attempts by the PSOE to “lower” the scope of the norm in the agreed terms, as reported by the state co-spokesman for We can Javier Sanchez Serna.
Specifically, he alluded to intentions to reduce the number of days of care leave for workers of one week and impediments for single-parent families to transfer it to other relatives.
In this way, he stressed that the budget agreement implied that this law should be processed through the urgent channel and in parallel with the work to carry out the new public accounts.
In this sense, he stressed that they demanded that the norm go ahead in the “agreed terms” and that it did not help them to reduce the paid leave of a week to care for family members by half or by five days.
He also criticized the fact that the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security continues to “refuse” that single-parent families can give this permission to relatives with a second degree of consanguinity, something that is precisely aligned with a socialist concern so that these women are not penalized in the working market.
The Family Law contemplates three main measures, such as the extension of the child-rearing income of 100 euros per month to advance in its universalization. In the end, this intermediate measure was chosen, given that the confederal space initially proposed that the age range be higher and that the economic benefit be progressive as the minor was turning years.
In this way, this benefit will be extended to people with children under three years of age who are or have been in Social Security or mutual society for 30 days or have received a benefit (contributory or assistance) from the unemployment protection system. The amount will be 100 euros for each child until he reaches that age.
Another novelty is that single-parent families with two children are considered as large families in order to obtain social benefits, one of the demands that United We Can champion within the budget negotiation.
On the other hand, two types of care permits are displayed. The first establishes a paid release for workers to care for family members and cohabitants. Specifically, Social Rights explained that it will serve so that employees can dedicate themselves during this period to the care of their children, the elderly in their charge or accompany their partner to the doctor, among the casuistry modality that includes said measure.
Finally, an eight-week unpaid leave is enabled for each child and to which employees are entitled to take until the minor turns eight.
However, in the negotiation between the coalition partners, the extension of maternity and paternity leave up to six months was not finally included, a demand of United We Can.
