The second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has announced that the paid leave applicable to workers who will not be able to go to their workplace because they were affected by DANA will not have an established period of days, as is usual, and will You will receive 100% of the salary, also maintaining Social Security contributions.
The only exception will be cases of death. In these cases there will be a deadline, although the Council of Ministers is going to extend it to five days instead of the two calendar days usually established in the agreements.
As explained by the vice president in the program ‘la hora de la uno’, on RTVE, the decision is made because the situation on the ground in Valencia makes it impossible in many cases to know in advance what day an employee will be able to return to their job. . «We do not know how soon we will have the travel routes operational, we are facing a climate emergency. You can live in a location that is not affected and work in an area that is. There is no geographical limitation,” he concluded.
Furthermore, and unlike what happened during the Pandemic, Those who obtain paid leave will not have to compensate for days not worked.
These measures are part of the ‘labor shield’ that the vice president announced last Monday, an initiative similar to the one taken during the Pandemic and that Labor assures that its objective is “that neither a company nor a worker falls.”
The bulk of this package is expected to be approved on Monday in the Council of Ministers, by the way, with retroactive effect from October 29. In addition to the one announced today, other measures that are already known are an extraordinary subsidy for domestic workers and the implementation of the ‘Plan Me Cuida’, which was designed to facilitate family conciliation.
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