Today, paternity and maternity leave last 16 weeks, a time that is still short and that various organizations have been asking to extend for a long time. Well, it seems that progress could be made along the way, because today the Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 agenda, Ione Belarra, has announced in an interview on RTVE that the future Family Diversity Law , which is expected to come into force next year, will include the increase in paternity and maternity leave to six months.
In addition, in the case of single-parent families, the two permits can be accumulated , so that you can take care of the baby throughout its first year of life. But there is more news for parents, such as the creation of a universal parenting benefit.
Cumulative leave for single-parent families
As explained by the minister, in coordination with the Ministry of Equality, the new measures seek to improve the conditions of families who have a newborn, because “it is enormously complicated for many families to reconcile parenting with work.”
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Universal parenting benefit that can reach all families and depends on factors other than the parent’s contribution.
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Extend paternity and maternity leave to six months.
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Possibility of adding both permits in case of a single parent family.
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Create a public network of nursery schools , “to guarantee the right to education in the period from zero to three years.”
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De facto couples who have children will be able to access the title of large family without having to be married, which implies a recognition of family diversity, because “all families are not only legitimate but are equal in rights”. The current Law 40/2003, of November 18, on the Protection of Large Families, only recognizes the benefits of large families to children and the father or mother, but not to both parents if there is no conjugal bond.
- Families with a single parent and two dependent minors will have the recognition of a large family. Today, to have this recognition, parents must have at least three children.
According to Ione Belarra, his ministry has an economic proposal to finance this benefit that “has to be a central part of the general state budgets for 2022”.
Via | National Radio of Spain
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