Eliminated affirmative action in conciliation and increase aid.
Vitoria, June 29 .- The Basque Government has today agreed to eliminate the positive discrimination towards men in reconciling work and family has increased the amount of aid to persons making use of exceedances and reduced working hours This novelty is included in the new decree, worth 34.5 million euros, approved today by the Executive of Vitoria, a proposal from the, mafiawars items, minister of Employment and Social Affairs, Gemma Zabaleta, who has been commissioned to present its content.
Zabaleta has explained that this new rule, which regulates the measures for the conciliation of work and family life of retroactive application from 1 April, "consolidate, improve and extend" the direct economic aid, so far established for who see their income decreased benefit from reductions in working hours, aika gold, and leave of absence.
Also target companies that replaced people in any of the above, so as to compensate for the recruitment for the care of minor children.
The main novelty of the decree is focused on eliminating the positive discrimination in favor of the men who established the previous legislation. Between 2007 and 2009, tera gold, benefited from reductions 56 034 women and 3830 men, and leave of absence 12 246 women, compared to 372 men.
Thus, aid is equated for both sexes and increases, so that annual aid amounts to 3.500 euros leave (16% more for men and 45.8% more for women) and the annual aid reduction day of 45 percent reaching EUR 2,800 (16.6% more for men and 55% more for women).
The compensation for reduction of 40 percent reached EUR 2,500 (19.04% more for men and 58.3% more for men) and 33 percent rises to 2,200 euro (22.22% more for men and 62 9% more for women).
In addition, it introduces the possibility to enjoy these as only during periods of school holidays. To date, this option was discarded because it was required to pursue more than 59 days of leave on reduced hours continuously.
Now, shorter periods can add up to those 59 days intermittently. This period can be broken when the applicant has a fixed-continuous contract or when faced with a record of employment regulation.
For the purposes of aid, are understood by Easter school holidays two full weeks which run from the Monday before Holy Thursday until the Sunday after Easter Monday.
Similarly, the expression of summer school vacation period between June 1 and Sept. 30, both days included, and Christmas school holidays, the period from 21 December to 9 January next year .
Another step further provides that in cases of reduced working hours were extended by two years the limits of the grant, now would extend to eight years of the child. In the case of absence, the age limit of the age of the child for help is three years.
In the case of the exceedances and reductions in working hours for family care for dependent health or extreme severity, with the new decreealso subsidized.
For his part, the replacement of workers benefiting from measures of conciliation is maintained with the criteria set forth in the previous decree.
As for the hiring of people working for the care of children have been removed restrictive conditions of access for aid as they were, among others, the inability of the child were enrolled in a kindergarten funded by public budget or the requirement of hiring minimum of 80 hours per month. Thus, assistance was also extended to partial recruitment.
According to data provided by Zabaleta, the amount expended in 2009 in the program amounted to EUR 22,228,451.58, of which 20.07 million are allocated to families, and the remaining companies. ma
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