Madrid (EFE) conciliation.
Social Rights sources have explained to Efe that the bill that reaches the Council table to continue the parliamentary process incorporates some non-substantial modifications in its wording that do not alter the content of the draft approved by the Government last December.
Several of the consultative reports sent to the Government propose changes, such as that of the Council of State, the most critical of the norm, which has warned of the invasion of the powers of the autonomous communities in some articles and the exclusion of certain households in the new definitions of families.
For its part, the Economic and Social Council has appreciated the advances in reconciliation and recognition of the diversity of family models, although it believes that the transposition of the European directive that incorporates the standard should have been addressed within the framework of the dialogue between the Government and social partners.
From the social entities they have demanded that the new 8-week leave for parents of children under 8 years of age created by law be paid to avoid penalizing the participation of women at work.
With the new norm, processed urgently with the aim of this legislature coming into force, in Spain there will be more than one million “families with the greatest need for parenting support”, currently known as “large families”, since which incorporates some 300,000 single-parent households with two children who come to have this condition that recognizes rights and aid.
It also grants this title to households with two children where an ascendant or descendant has a disability, those headed by a victim of gender violence or by a spouse who has obtained exclusive guardianship and custody without the right to alimony, and those with two children in which one parent is undergoing hospital treatment for one year or has entered prison.
The family law includes new paid permits for the care of relatives or cohabitants, creates a registry of domestic partners who will be able to access the different permits and recognizes the right to early care for minors and their families.
In addition, it extends the parenting income of one hundred euros per month per child under 3 years of age that only working mothers charged to those who are unemployed or who have contributed for at least one month, a measure that has already been in place since January.
The new law includes a paid leave of five days a year to care for a relative up to the second degree or a cohabitant and the right to be absent for urgent family reasons -in cases of illness or accident- up to 4 paid days.
