The Ministry of Labor and the CC.OO. unions and the UGT reached an agreement this Monday the extension of death permits for up to ten daysinstead of the current two expandable to four. He does not have the support of employers, … after the department of Yolanda Díaz decided at the beginning of the month to close the tripartite negotiations due to the blockage of the CEOE and Cepyme at the table.
The Secretary of State for Labor, Joaquín Pérez Rey, reached an agreement to begin the process of increasing the number of days of leave due to the death of a family member and for the creation of a a new one for palliative care. At the end of the meeting called for this Monday, Labor’s number two thanked the unions for having “shown themselves to the occasion”.
“It is a shame, and I repeat, that the Spanish employers’ union is not a party to this agreement. It’s incomprehensible. They will have to explain to the entrepreneurs and workers of this country why they excluded themselves from a regulation that places our country in the modernity of what other European countries do and how they can show a certain insensitivity,” explained Pérez Rey.
For the Secretary of State, this agreement It should have been “everyone”but he accused employers of not wanting to get involved in “calculations that are not understood”: “They have nothing to do with productivity, they have nothing to do with absenteeism or they have nothing to do with the culture of effort”. Despite this absence, he assured that this pact was no less “important and decisive”. “The fact that employers aren’t there doesn’t take away from its importance,” he said.
In this sense, the Secretary of State asked Spanish employers, instead of looking for sick employees, to devote themselves to improve the well-being of businesses and workers of the country.
“We should not persecute those who get sick, what we need to avoid is workers getting sick. And do you know how workers get sick? Just when it’s needed return to work two days after the death of a child“, he added.
The Ministry of Labor wants extend bereavement leave up to 10 days of the spouse, de facto partner or parents up to the second degree of consanguinity and from which one can benefit until four weeks have passed since the death on continuous or discontinuous days.
In addition, he proposes to renounce 15 days for a new palliative care license of the spouse, de facto partner or parents also up to the second degree by consanguinity.
In addition, the royal decree that the Labor Party wants to promote is the incorporation of a one-day permit to accompany a person. when will he be euthanized and to which any worker it has designated to accompany it will be entitled, whether or not there is a relationship.
The Ministry will get to work “now”
In addition, Pérez Rey assured that they will get to work “from this very moment” to secure the support of political groups for this standard and expressed his belief that they will achieve it.
“I know that It is a need felt by the entire Spanish populationthat is, to suffer the death of a son or daughter. Being saddened by the death of a family member is not a right or left issue, it is an issue that everyone feels, regardless of their social class and wherever they are,” he explained.
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