Add presses Sánchez to approve tomorrow the agreement on the permits paid by birth and care
There is agreement within the government to approve birth and care permits, according to adding sources of adding but the minority partner of the government coalition now intends to be approved at the meeting of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, the last of the political course.
Sumar ensures that the agreement provides one more birth and care week until the child has 12 months (of the current 16 until 17, with immediate entry) and two more weeks of parental perental permits 100% paid for care up to 8 years. These two parental weeks, according to add, apply retroactively since August 2024, which was when Spain had the obligation to transpose the directive.
Similarly, Yolanda Díaz group says they have agreed 32 weeks of birth permits and care for single -parent families. 4 of them enjoyable until the child turns 8.
“To these measures is added the political commitment to increase a week of birth to complete the total of 20, between classical parental and birth,” sources of adding that they explain that workers will be entitled from the approval of the Royal Decree Law to 19 weeks of birth permits and care, two of them parental until the eight years of age, which would be added at 8 weeks not paid, which currently recognizes article 48 bis of the statute of the workers. The possibility of accumulating the breastfeeding permit that has already been recognized by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy as a right of working people in the RDL 2/2024.
To add, “it is absolutely fundamental that this agreement becomes effective in the Council of Ministers next Tuesday, July 29, to avoid the fine that the European Union will impose to Spain from August 1 with a amount of more than 40,000 euros per day.”
“There is no reason not to approve Royal Decree-Law immediately, since the agreement has already been reached,” argue the same sources.
