The Ministry of Labor has created a four days paid leave so that workers affected by natural disasters can be absent from their jobs, within a package of labor and risk prevention measures that contemplate the modification of the Workers’ Statute. The department led by Yolanda Díaz takes these measures to the Council of Ministers this Thursday for approval.
Specifically, what Labor calls climate permits will be incorporated into the Workers’ Statute: up to four days of paid leave for the worker. due to the impossibility of going to the workplace in the event of a disaster, extendable until the circumstances that motivated it disappear.
If more days are necessary, the companies They could make use of a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) of force majeure for its justification.
The labor measures that the Council of Ministers plans to approve this Thursday also contemplate the right of workers to be informed of planned actions on the occasion of the activation of disaster alerts.
It will be mandatory for all collective agreements to negotiate action protocols that include risk prevention measures labor in the face of catastrophes and adverse meteorological phenomena.
In the face of serious and imminent risks, the company will be obliged to inform as soon as possible of the measures to be adopted and give instructions to interrupt the activity, which will be suspended until the danger subsides.
Likewise, Labor has designed a “new green right”, by which the legal representatives of the workers or, failing that, the prevention delegates, They may agree to stop the activity to avoid risks to the workforce.. Sources from the Ministry have made it clear that workers will not be able to suffer any harm from the adoption of all these measures.
The Department directed by Yolanda Díaz will be approved within one year the regulation on the protection of workers against the effects of the climate crisis in the workplace.
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