First final judgment requiring an eight-week parental leave to be paid to a female worker

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The Dispute Court No. 1 of Cuenca has recognized a female worker's right to eight weeks' paid parental leave, pending the transfer of...

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The Dispute Court No. 1 of Cuenca has issued the first final judgement in Spain recognizing the right of a worker to receive eight-week parental leave for the care of the child until the child reaches the age of eight years. Currently, this leave is set up in Spain as a wage without pay, which gives workers the right to enjoy it but without receiving the salary of the days absent. This lack of remuneration for parental leave in Spain is contrary…

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The sentence, promoted by the legal services of the Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants Center (CSIF), states that the worker, an optional from the Virgen de la Luz Hospital in Cuenca, has the right to receive an eight-week paid parental leave to care for her child under eight years of age.

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For the first time in Spain, a judge has issued a final judgment recognizing the right to paid parental leave of eight weeks. The ruling, issued by the Dispute Court No. 1 of Cuenca, gives the right to a worker who claimed this right, aligned with the European Directive 2019/1158, but which had not been fully incorporated into Spanish law until now. The case was presented by an optional from the Virgen de la Luz Hospital in Cuenca, who applied f…

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For the first time, a court has established case law and recognized the right of a worker to eight-week paid parental leave, which has yet to be fully transposed by the State. The ruling, issued by the Contentious-Administrative Court, is the first firm in this regard and affects a public employee, a physician at the Virgen de la Luz Hospital, in Cuenca. The woman applied for four-week leave to care for her daughter under eight years old in Octo…

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The judgement, handed down by the Administrative Court No. 1 of Cuenca on 27 January and to which Onda Cero has had access, recognizes the permission to the optional, which was denied by the Integrated Management of Care of Cuenca (GAI).The judge considers that the granting of this right to conciliation as set out in the European Directive 2019/1158 has been violated.In this sense, the Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants Central (CSIF), t…