Proposal to share working time and care more fairly

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1. The bill would make unfavorable treatment of workers for exercising work-life balance and shared responsibility rights a form of sex discrimination.
2. It would reform part-time work: contracts would have to state start and end times, supplementary hours would be abolished, and employers could not unilaterally add hours or switch workers between full-time and part-time.
3. The leave for breastfeeding and caring for children under twelve months would become an individual, duplicable right: each parent could take it, even for the same child, and it could be accumulated into full days off.
4. It would create a right to reduce working hours, or to change shifts or schedules, for reasons of training, career prospects, family or disability, subject to certain seniority requirements.
5. All employees' working time would have to be recorded daily, with start and end times, and kept available to the Labor Inspectorate; failing to keep the record would be a serious offense.
6. Workers would gain the right to have employers consider adapting their schedules for work-life balance, and employers would have to justify any refusal in writing within fifteen days.
7. In Social Security, the bill would count time registered with the system, not just hours actually worked, toward pensions and unemployment benefits, abolishing the part-time coefficient, and would replace the maternity top-up with a child care top-up available to mothers or fathers.
8. It would strengthen dismissal protection for pregnant workers and people on care leave, abolish dismissal for absenteeism, and create a special, fast-track court procedure to claim work-life balance rights.

Who it affects

• Workers, especially those caring for children or dependents: They would gain more rights to adapt their schedules, reduce working time and protection against dismissal.
• Part-time workers: They would have the same rights as full-time workers and more control over their hours and contributions.
• Employers: They would have to record working time, justify refusals of schedule adaptations and could be fined for violations.
• Public employees: The Public Employees' Basic Statute would include similar work-life balance and reduced hours rights.
• Pensioners and unemployed people: The rules for calculating pensions and benefits would change to reduce the gender gap.

Words worth knowing

Conciliación y corresponsabilidad

Work-life balance and shared responsibility: combining work with family life and splitting care tasks between men and women.

Horas complementarias

Extra hours an employer could require a part-time worker to work under the agreed terms; the bill would abolish them.

Coeficiente de parcialidad

A rule that reduced the counted contributions of part-time workers; the bill would eliminate it.

Base reguladora

The amount taken from contribution bases used to calculate how much a pension or benefit pays.

Excedencia

A leave status where a worker temporarily stops working with full or partial job reservation.

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