The law of families with permits to care falls due to the electoral advance

A dozen laws and decrees that the Government and Parliament worked on will die without seeing the light after the electoral call and the dissolution of the Cortes.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
29 May 2023 Monday 22:23
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The law of families with permits to care falls due to the electoral advance

A dozen laws and decrees that the Government and Parliament worked on will die without seeing the light after the electoral call and the dissolution of the Cortes. It is not new, it always happens when a date is set for a general election. Hours and hours of debate, of work of the lost parliamentarians waiting for the next government, if it so wishes, to be rescued. Or not.

And this also happens now with laws that were already drawn up and which only needed a few slight tweaks in the form of amendments and agreements between partners. This is the case of the star norm of the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, that of families, a text that contemplated the right of workers to be able to care for their closest relatives and the people with whom they live (whether or not they family) when they get sick whether they are hospitalized or not (until now, only for hospital admission and only for relatives).

The family law included a care leave for five days a year, which could be used in the event of a serious accident or illness, hospitalization or surgery without hospitalization that requires rest, both for a relative up to the 2nd degree and for a cohabitant. And another eight-week parental leave, which could be enjoyed continuously or discontinuously, full-time or part-time, until the minor turned eight years old, and a third new permit “due to force majeure”, which will be distributed by hours and could reach in total up to four days a year.

In addition, it considered single parents with two children as large families, a historical demand of this group, which they now see frustrated.

What will also remain in a drawer is the right to be forgotten oncology, which sought to ensure that people who had suffered from cancer throughout their lives did not have to justify their history at the time they decide to take out life insurance, ask for any type of loan or even buy a home. All the parties agreed with this and that is why it was included in the customer service law, which was already in its final parliamentary phase.

But it seems very difficult for this article to go ahead, although all the parties consider that it is unfair that former cancer patients are prevented from accessing certain services. This does not happen, however, with the recently approved provision of the General Directorate of Traffic that allows them to renew their driving license like other drivers.

The customer service law, which came out of the hand of Minister Alberto Garzón, decays and with it the obligation of essential service companies such as gas and electricity, passenger transport and electronic communications services, to have a system effective in providing information, addressing and resolving complaints and claims quickly. Among others, making available to customers a personalized telephone service and a telephone number, both free of charge, to deal with their complaints and claims, as well as any contractual incident.

Nor will the law against food waste that was already in the Senate see the light of day. This was intended to prevent more than 1,300 million kilos of food from ending up every year in the trash. Not only in the homes of citizens, but also in the different links of the production chain.

Goodbye also to the sustainable mobility law, which contemplated the implementation of tolls in the center of cities to reduce polluting emissions.

And there will be no mental health law that contemplated raising "the ratios of professionals to place them within European parameters" because, although all the parties agree, the reality is that its processing has made little progress and will continue to be so.

Do you remember the fight between the PSOE and Podemos over prostitution? Well, in the end, the socialist proposition to punish all kinds of pimping, without the exploitation relationship being necessary, and the so-called locative third party, which configures an aggravated modality of the crime of pimping, with an increase in the penalty, comes to nothing.