The Spanish cabinet today approved a draft law that gives workers the right to receive asick leave due to severe period pains.
The adoption of the legislation will make Spain the first country in Europe to adopt such a law.
Women in Spain they will have the right to stay at home for as long as the period pains last. The estimated annual cost of 23.8 million euros will be covered by the state.
Required doctor’s opinion to give such leave from work.
“We are enacting a law that will ensure that women can live better,” Equality Minister Irene Montero told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
“The law sets a tmember to work in pain and taking pills. “
The bill will not be ready to be submitted to Parliament until the consultation is completed. Constitutionalists note that the law will not enter into force before the end of 2022 at the earliest.
Montero, from the smaller Podemos party in Spain’s left-wing coalition, is one of the key members of the bill.
The bill will be tabled in parallel with the new regulations on abortionswhich will allow all women over the age of 16 to terminate a pregnancy without parental consent.
Some MPs from the Prime Minister’s Socialist Party Pedro Sanchezwho lead the minority government, have expressed reservations about the bill.
Economy Minister Nadia Calvinio warned that the law could put women at a disadvantage when competing for jobs.
The government would never approve measures that could “stigmatize women,” he said.
Similar laws exist in Taiwan, where women can be absent from work for three days a year due to period pains, but receive only half their salary for days off.
In South Korea, employers have to give employees one day off a month if they request it, but the law does not specify who pays the costs or whether wages must be paid.
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