The Government approves the Families Bill, which provides for nine paid days of care per year

Family law opens. This Tuesday, the Council of Ministers gave the green light to a preliminary draft of a norm that seeks to “guarantee the right to reconciliation.”

The text discusses the creation of three permissions. One paid and five days a year to allow workers to “care for a second-degree relative or cohabitant” may be requested by the cohabitant, whether or not they are related. Another “absence due to family force majeure that requires immediate attention, which will be four paid days per year and which can be used for hours,” sources from the Ministry of Social Rights said. and third, eight weeks of parental leave, which may be taken continuously or intermittently until the minor reaches the age of eight.

The five-day permit can be “used in the event of a serious accident or illness, hospitalization or surgery without hospitalization requiring rest” and will apply to the Ministry of Social Rights, which is issuing the rule. In the same regard, in order to equalize the rights of married couples and ordinary couples, the latter will have a 15-day guaranteed registration permit.

“Parent pin” ban

Minister Ione Bellara said that this regulation is “one of the most important laws of this political course” because it corrects the “unsustainable situation” of “political roots” that was happening in Spain, where 12,000 million euros are invested every year. Below the EU average in protecting families and children.

The head of the social rights portfolio said the bill seeks to respond to “one of the central problems of daily life in our country”, where reconciling work and professional life in Spain is “science fiction”. Therefore, he claims that with this text the government is trying to “correct very important historical gaps in our country in the protection of families”. This Tuesday, the law was passed by the Council of Ministers in the first round, Bellara hopes that the rule “will be approved as soon as possible”.

To protect children’s rights, this rule prohibits parents or guardians from preventing access to family-friendly content through so-called through “Parent Pin” in schools. In this way, he tries to interfere with one of the measures that Vox implements in its electoral program in the autonomous communities.

Extension of building rent

The text also provides for an increase of 100 euros of parental income per month for families with sons and daughters from zero to three years of age. “According to the department’s calculations, 200,000 to 250,000 newborn mothers in our country will benefit from this measure,” the ministry said. And they explain: “This extension covers all mothers who receive unemployment benefits, contributory or not, and also those who do not meet the requirements in advance, 30 days after childbirth. From now on, women who have part-time or temporary jobs will also receive 100% of the benefit.

“The orphan’s pension is for one year, until 26, and the permission to take care of a minor with cancer or a serious illness will be extended until 26 in case of disability,” the text says. In addition to these benefits, the regulation also provides for the extension of maternity and non-contributory care subsidies to adoptive and foster families.

Identify different types of family

The ministry insisted that with this project, the coalition government is trying to “fully recognize the different types of families that already exist in our country.” To this end, the denomination “families most in need of parental support” has been promoted, which now includes “large families” and the broad umbrella of diverse family nuclei such as “lone families with two children”. “..

Similarly, this designation includes “families with two children where an ascendant or descendant has a disability; Families with two children headed by a victim of gender-based violence or a spouse who received sole custody and custody without custody rights and families with two children in which one parent undergoes hospital treatment for a year or is imprisoned.

“On the other hand, families that have previously been considered numerous in the general category, for example four children instead of five, will be considered families in greatest need of special category parenting support; Families with three children in case of multiple births, instead of four, as at present, and families with three children and low income (up to 150% of IPREM),” reported Social Rights.