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The Government of Spain plans to approve the II Equality Plan of the General State Administration in the coming months. The draft document ignores the Ombudsman's request and does not apply the Equality Law regarding paternity leave for civil servants. On May 27, public service unions were called to a meeting of the Technical Equality Commission of the General State Administration to negotiate the new Equality Plan that must be approved for the years 2015 and 2016. Union sources consulted by El Confidencial Digital explain that at this meeting the administration representatives presented them with a draft of the Equality Plan that the centers consider “not very ambitious” since, in their opinion, it only includes ethereal and non-concrete measures. One of the aspects that has caused the unfavorable reaction of civil servants' unions is that which affects paternity leave for civil servants.
According to the CSIF union, the Government maintains paternity leave at two weeks and refuses to extend it to four , despite the request of the Ombudsman. Postponement year after year At the beginning of this year, the Independent Trade Union Center of Civil Servants sent a letter to the Ombudsman complaining had been delaying Denmark Mobile Number List for years the extension of paternity leave established by the Equality Law that Zapatero's executive approved in 2007 and that later It was corroborated by a specific paternity leave law of 2009. The four-week paternity leave should have come into force on January 1, 2011 . The last budgets of the PSOE Government, in 2010, postponed this measure to 2012; Later, Rajoy's first decree of urgent measures again delayed the permit for four weeks, something that has happened again every year with the General State Budgets.
In response to CSIF's complaint, the Ombudsman sent a letter last February to the Secretary of State for Public Administrations in which he requested that the application of the four-week paternity leave for civil servants not be further delayed. The Ombudsman maintains that if the Government has been talking for months about “recovery” and “exit from the crisis” , it must now implement this measure approved by law which is “fundamental to achieving the reconciliation of work and family life”. That is to say, he tries to refute the reason that the Executive has always referred to for delaying this measure, which is the economic cost that it would entail for the public coffers.
It will not apply in 2016 either. Despite this direct request from the Ombudsman - whose recommendations are not mandatory but have authority -, Public Administrations continue to refuse: in fact, in that draft of the Equality Plan for 2015-2016 (which the Government makes clear that it is “ at zero cost”) maintains the two weeks of paternity leave , instead of the four requested by the unions and the Ombudsman. In the last General State Budgets, this extension to four weeks was postponed to January 1, 2016. However, if, as the unions fear, the Council of Ministers ends up approving an Equality Plan for the General State Administration very similar to the one that they have presented in a first draft, in 2016 civil servants will not have more than two weeks of paternity leave either. exp-player-logo
According to the CSIF union, the Government maintains paternity leave at two weeks and refuses to extend it to four , despite the request of the Ombudsman. Postponement year after year At the beginning of this year, the Independent Trade Union Center of Civil Servants sent a letter to the Ombudsman complaining had been delaying Denmark Mobile Number List for years the extension of paternity leave established by the Equality Law that Zapatero's executive approved in 2007 and that later It was corroborated by a specific paternity leave law of 2009. The four-week paternity leave should have come into force on January 1, 2011 . The last budgets of the PSOE Government, in 2010, postponed this measure to 2012; Later, Rajoy's first decree of urgent measures again delayed the permit for four weeks, something that has happened again every year with the General State Budgets.
In response to CSIF's complaint, the Ombudsman sent a letter last February to the Secretary of State for Public Administrations in which he requested that the application of the four-week paternity leave for civil servants not be further delayed. The Ombudsman maintains that if the Government has been talking for months about “recovery” and “exit from the crisis” , it must now implement this measure approved by law which is “fundamental to achieving the reconciliation of work and family life”. That is to say, he tries to refute the reason that the Executive has always referred to for delaying this measure, which is the economic cost that it would entail for the public coffers.
It will not apply in 2016 either. Despite this direct request from the Ombudsman - whose recommendations are not mandatory but have authority -, Public Administrations continue to refuse: in fact, in that draft of the Equality Plan for 2015-2016 (which the Government makes clear that it is “ at zero cost”) maintains the two weeks of paternity leave , instead of the four requested by the unions and the Ombudsman. In the last General State Budgets, this extension to four weeks was postponed to January 1, 2016. However, if, as the unions fear, the Council of Ministers ends up approving an Equality Plan for the General State Administration very similar to the one that they have presented in a first draft, in 2016 civil servants will not have more than two weeks of paternity leave either. exp-player-logo