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Fathers may advance their paternity leave by 10 days to care for the mother during the time prior to childbirth, as stated in the draft Law on Families, promoted by the
Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda
and approved by the
Council of Ministers.
on first reading.
Currently, paternity leave is equal to maternity leave, with a total of 16 weeks.
However, for the measure to enter into force, the parliamentary process of the norm must have finished before the
Parliament
is dissolved within a year due to the next general elections.
The text of the Family Law modifies the
Law of the Workers' Statute
to establish the possibility that the non-pregnant parent "can anticipate in 10 days the beginning of the enjoyment" of paternity leave.
According to the draft of the new law, this flexibility "is consistent with the object of care of the biological mother during this period."
Until now, the Workers' Statute contemplates that "the suspension of the contract of each of the parents for the care of a minor,
once the first six weeks immediately after the birth have elapsed
, may be distributed at their will, in weekly periods at enjoy cumulatively or interruptedly and exercise from the end of the mandatory post-partum suspension until the son or daughter reaches 12 months";
and specifies that "
the biological mother may anticipate her exercise
of it up to four weeks before the foreseeable date of delivery", informs Europa Press.
In the draft of the new Family Law, it is added that also "the parent other than the biological mother may anticipate their exercise up to 10 days before said date."
single parent families
Another of the changes introduced by the new text is that a single father or mother who has a son or daughter with a disability will be able to enjoy the full extension of paternity leave that would correspond to a family made up of two parents in the same situation, that is Say two more weeks.
In this way, the new Law on Families modifies the Workers' Statute, which currently states that "in the event of disability of the son or daughter at birth, adoption, in custody for adoption or fostering purposes", the Suspension of the contract for paternity and maternity "will have
an additional duration of two weeks
, one for each of the parents."
Now, with the new law, it is added that, "if there is only one parent, the latter may enjoy the full extensions provided for in this section in the case of families with two parents."
Non-contributory subsidy
Another modification that the norm will introduce is that it will extend the non-contributory maternity allowance to cases previously excluded, such as
foster care
,
custody for adoption purposes
and
adoption
.
In this way, the draft modifies the consolidated text of the General Social Security Law, approved by royal decree in 2015, which establishes that the beneficiaries of the birth subsidy will be "the workers included in this general scheme who, in the event of childbirth , meet all the requirements established to access the benefit for birth and care of a minor".
Now, with the new wording, "workers included in the general regime who, given the situation of birth, adoption, guardianship for the purpose of adoption or foster care" will have the right to this subsidy, meet all the established requirements.
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