Bill to expand family benefits and make work-life balance easier

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1. The bill would make every family with two or more children a large family, and give special-category status to families with three or more children, instead of the current five or more.
2. For the first time, it would create a protection scheme for single-parent families: they would get the same benefits as large families, and single-parent families with two or more children would be special category. Their birth or adoption leave would be 36 weeks.
3. It would recognize work-life balance as an individual right for all workers and strengthen its court protection: if the employer refuses to adapt working hours, the worker can go to the labor court within 20 days, through an urgent, priority procedure.
4. It would create a time bank of at least 5 % of annual working hours for family matters, allow converting up to seven vacation days into hours for personal matters, and expand reduced schedules for caring for elderly or dependent relatives, which could be accumulated into full days off.
5. It would raise birth, adoption and foster care leave to 18 weeks for each parent (36 in total), make it flexible until the child turns twelve months, and add eight weeks if the child has a disability or there is a multiple birth.
6. It would extend the birth and childcare allowance to men and to adoption or foster care cases, and create 100 % exemptions from employer Social Security contributions during leave and for replacement contracts.
7. It would equalize the rights of unmarried couples and married couples: unmarried couples could be recognized as large families, get 15 days of paid leave, file joint income taxincome tax The personal income tax (IRPF in Spain): what people pay on what they earn from work, business or savings. returns, and access survivor's pension, death grant and workplace accident compensation on equal terms.
8. It would require the Government to pass several rules and programs: an unmarried couples law, free first-cycle preschool for children under three, school cafeteria grants, extended school hours, free summer English activities, and a state pact on more rational working schedules.

Who it affects

• Families with two or more children and single-parent families: They would qualify as large families and receive their benefits, with fewer requirements than now.
• Workers: They would get more leave, a time bank and easier ways to reduce hours or work remotely.
• Employers: They would get 100 % exemptions from Social Security contributions during leave and replacements, plus more duties on equality and work-life balance plans.
• Unmarried couples: They would be equal to married couples in tax, labor and Social Security benefits.
• Families with young children: Cafeteria grants, extended school hours and free first-cycle preschool are proposed.

Words worth knowing

Familia numerosa de categoría especial (special-category large family)

A type of large family with extra benefits because it has more children or children with disabilities.

Bolsa de horas (time bank)

A yearly reserve of working hours the employee can use for family matters and then make up.

Subsidio por nacimiento y cuidado de menor (birth and childcare allowance)

A Social Security payment for people who lack enough contributions to receive the standard birth benefit.

Pareja de hecho (unmarried couple)

Two people living together in a stable, public relationship without being married.

Excedencia (unpaid leave)

A situation where the worker temporarily stops working but keeps the right to return to the job.

income tax

The personal income tax (IRPF in Spain): what people pay on what they earn from work, business or savings.

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