The family law will include a five-day paid leave to care for family members and another two-month leave for parents of children under eight years of age.

• Social benefits Parents will have a new leave of eight weeks until the child turns eight

• Government Ione Belarra sends to the rest of the Government the law that increases maternity and paternity leave to six months to approve it in January

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will take the draft of the family law to the Council of Ministers next Tuesday, which will finally include a paid leave of five days a year, paid, to care for a relative up to the second degree or a cohabitant.

Social Rights sources report that the rule will also include a new eight-week parental leave, which may be enjoyed continuously or intermittently until the minor turns eight.

In accordance with this law, single-parent families with two children, families with two children where an ascendant or descendant has a disability, and families with two children headed by a victim of gender violence or by a spouse who has obtained sole custody and custody without the right to alimony.

The draft, according to sources, will increase the parenting income of 100 euros per month for each dependent child under 3 years of age.

The department headed by Ione Belarra hoped that the paid leave to care for relatives or cohabitants would be seven a year, expandable to nine if it was necessary to move to another community, but finally, after long negotiations with the Treasury that have been delaying the law, left in five days.

Its initial objective was also to extend maternity and paternity leave to six months, from the current 16 weeks.

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