Clearly, Spain has the edge on many issues. Between menstrual leave, access to free menstrual protection in all public establishments and experimentation with the 4-day week, the country of tapas shows us that the abuse of the sun does not prevent it from being a forerunner that we can admire.
Once again, they’ve hit hard by agreeing that a single mother can combine her maternity leave, along with paternity leave, to spend more postpartum time with her children.
Cumulation of maternity and paternity leave for a single mother
The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has decided to grant a single mother the possibility of combining the two leaves, increasing the suspension period from 16 to 32 weeks.
Currently, maternity leave is 16 weeks, as is paternity leave, and has been since 2021. In Spain, both parents are not obliged to take this leave at the same time and allow this single mother to take the two leaves consecutively it is a major step forward in terms of equity.
Indeed, according to this new decree, the text of which can be consulted (in Spanish), “the mother can extend the suspension of the contract and the duration of the allowance, accumulating the 16 weeks that would correspond to the other parent if there were one, in order not to give the minor child unfavorable treatment depending on the family model to which he belongs . »
According to the National Institute of Statistics in Spain, for the year 2020, 81% of single parent families are headed by a woman.
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Mary Crossley is an author at “The Fashion Vibes”. She is a seasoned journalist who is dedicated to delivering the latest news to her readers. With a keen sense of what’s important, Mary covers a wide range of topics, from politics to lifestyle and everything in between.
