Bill to equalize birth and adoption leave for both parents

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1. The bill creates an individual, non-transferable parental leave: each parent would get 16 weeks of suspended employment contract, with a benefit of 100% of the base rate, and no part could be transferred or shared.
2. The leave would come in two parts: an initial parental leave of two mandatory weeks right after birth or adoption, and a child-raising parental leave of fourteen weeks (four mandatory, ten voluntary) to be used within twelve months.
3. Equalization would be gradual: the other parent's leave would grow from six weeks in 2017 to fourteen in 2021, and from January 1, 2022 both parents would have exactly the same period.
4. The leave adapts to premature births or hospitalization of the baby: it could count from the hospital discharge date and be extended by up to thirteen additional weeks. Two extra weeks would be added if the child has a disability.
5. A non-contributory benefit of 42 days would be created for people who lack enough social security contributions, equal to 100% of the IPREMIPREM Indicador Público de Renta de Efectos Múltiples: a public reference income figure used to calculate some benefits., with fourteen extra days in cases such as large families, single-parent families, multiple births or disability.
6. The Government would have to run awareness campaigns, submit yearly statistical tracking of leave use to the Cortes Generales, and approve a plan to guarantee universal childcare (nursery school) places from the day after parental leave ends.

Who it affects

• Employees who become parents through birth, adoption, foster care for adoption or guardianship: They would each get their own 16-week leave with a benefit of 100% of the base rate.
• Public employees: The Public Sector Basic Statute would be amended with equivalent 16-week leaves.
• People with insufficient social security contributions: They could receive a non-contributory benefit of 42 days, extendable in certain cases.
• Employers: The voluntary weeks could be taken part time by agreement, and part-time use requires staying at work during the rest of the workday.

Words worth knowing

Base reguladora

The reference amount used to calculate a social security benefit; here it matches the one used for temporary disability.

Prestación contributiva / no contributiva

Contributory benefits require a minimum of social security contributions; non-contributory ones can be paid without that requirement, but at a lower amount.

IPREM

Indicador Público de Renta de Efectos Múltiples: a public reference income figure used to calculate some benefits.

Guarda con fines de adopción

A measure by which a court or administration places a minor with a person or couple before the adoption is finalized.

Acogimiento

A situation where a minor lives with a family other than their own, temporarily or permanently, without being adopted.

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