The paid permits that you can request as a worker (and those that you will soon be able to do so)
In Spain, there are several reasons why a person can be absent from work without this implying a loss of salary. This is collected in the Workers Statute (ET) which is responsible for regulating this type of absences to which employees are entitled. We are talking about the paid leave. In order for an employee to access this benefit, there must be: prior notice and justification.
It is in the article 37 of the Workers’ Statute where you can see all that a person can request.
Paid leave included in the Workers’ Statute
One of those paid permits is by marriage. All those people who contract marriage, whether civil or religious, have 15 calendar days of leave paid. To do this, it is necessary that the worker notify the company 15 days in advance. The days start counting from the day of the wedding, but it is important to remember that if the wedding falls on a worked holiday or a holiday for the worker, they start counting from the next working day.
Until five days for an accident or serious illness, hospitalization or surgery without hospitalization that requires home rest for a spouse, de facto partner or relatives up to the second degree by consanguinity or affinity. This also includes blood relatives of the de facto partner or another person other than the above “who lives with the worker in the same home and who requires the worker’s effective care.”
If the worker has to make a move You can have a one-day permit. It can be enjoyed regardless of whether that transfer is long or short distance or if it will be temporary or permanent.
Another permit is for the fulfillment of an inexcusable duty of a public and personal natureincluding the exercise of active suffrage. The Workers’ Statute says that “when it is established in a legal or conventional norm a certain period, it will be subject to its provisions regarding the duration of the absence and its financial compensation”.
“When compliance with the aforementioned duty implies the impossibility of providing the work due in more than twenty percent of the working hours in a period of three months, The company may transfer the affected worker to a situation of leave regulated in article 46.1″, the ET also explains.
Perform union or staff representation functions under the legally or conventionally established terms, it also allows you to be a beneficiary of paid leave.
On the other hand, the performing prenatal exams and childbirth preparation techniques They are also included in paid leave. The Statute also includes the adoption cases for “attendance at the mandatory information and preparation sessions and for the completion of the perceptive psychological and social reports prior to the declaration of suitability, always, in all cases, that they must take place within the work day.”
One of the last to enter has been the paid leave of up to four days per inability to access the workplace or travel through traffic routes necessary to go there as a result of the limitations, recommendations or travel prohibitions established by the authorities. This occurs in situations of serious risk due to catastrophe or adverse weather phenomenon. Once those days have passed, it can be extended “until the circumstances that justified it disappear, without prejudice to the company’s possibility of applying a suspension of the employment contract or a reduction in working hours.”
And here the essential time for “the realization of the tasks” is also included. preparatory acts for organ or tissue donation provided that they must take place within the work day”.
What are the changes in paid leave?
A few days ago, the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diazannounced that leave for the death of a family member will be extended up to ten days. Currently, it is two days, four if it is necessary to travel. “No one can go to work two days after the death of a father, mother or child,” he denounced, ensuring that the current permits are “too meager.”
One of the great novelties is the palliative care leave. In this case, Díaz explained that his team is still studying the degree of kinship it will achieve. Although details are missing, for the moment it seems certain that it will cover care for relatives who are first degree of consanguinity, that is, a child, father or mother.
