The second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diazhas announced that his ministry will present a new rule to modify the Workers’ Statute and expand the leave for death of a family member up to 10 dayswill incorporate a new permit for palliative care also for family members.
Currently, in first-degree relatives of consanguinity, such as parents or in-laws, death leave is 2 dayswhich can be expanded to 4 if it is necessary to move.
“No one can go to work well two days after the death of a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a friend. Nobody can do it well. Nobody“, the minister explained at a Europa Press Informative Breakfast.
The minister has assured that one of Spain’s problems regarding productivity is that people are forced to work in conditions that are not favorable.
“He who buries a mother or who does not go to work because he has to take care of his child is not an absentee”the minister stated.
In this sense, Díaz has stated that we must talk about absenteeism in Spain, but “the real thing.” “True absenteeism, of course, is a problem in Spain,” said Díaz, who indicated that the public impact of absenteeism in Spain is one and a half points of GDP.
