Bill to equalize birth and adoption leave for both parents

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1. The bill would give each parent their own 16-week leave for birth, adoption, pre-adoption foster care or foster care, which could not be transferred or shared, with a benefit of 100% of the base rate.
2. The leave would have two parts: an initial parental leave of two mandatory weeks right after the birth or adoption, and a parental leave for child care of fourteen weeks, four of them mandatory and ten voluntary, to be taken within 12 months.
3. Equalization would be gradual: the other parent's leave would start at six weeks in 2017 and grow each year until reaching 16 weeks in 2022, when the new rules would fully apply.
4. The bill would amend the Workers' Statute and the Basic Statute of Public Employees, so the equal leave would apply to both private-sector workers and civil servants.
5. It would also regulate the Social Security benefit: who qualifies based on age and contributions, its amount of 100% of the base rate, and a non-contributory benefit of 42 days for those who have not contributed enough.
6. The Government would have to run awareness campaigns, submit yearly statistics on leave use to the Cortes Generales, and a plan to make the right to a nursery school place universal when the leave ends.

Who it affects

• Workers who have a child by birth, adoption, pre-adoption foster care or foster care: They would get their own equal 16-week leave with a 100% benefit.
• Civil servants: The same 16-week leaves would apply to them under the Basic Statute of Public Employees.
• Biological mothers: They would keep their 16 weeks and could start the leave up to four weeks before delivery.
• Fathers and other non-biological parents: Their leave would be gradually extended until it equals the mother's in 2022.
• Families with a child with a disability, or with multiple births or adoptions: The leave would be extended by two additional weeks for each case.

Words worth knowing

Base reguladora (base rate)

The amount used to calculate a Social Security benefit, based on the worker's contributions.

Guarda con fines de adopción (pre-adoption foster care)

A measure by which a court or the administration places a minor with a family while the adoption is being processed.

Acogimiento (foster care)

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

Prestación no contributiva (non-contributory benefit)

Money paid by Social Security to people who have not contributed enough to qualify for the regular benefit.

IPREM

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

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