Employment Flash April 2023 II

On 14 April 2023, the Official Gazette of the Spanish Parliament published the Draft Law on Families (the "Bill"), entrusting its approval with full legislative competence and by urgent procedure to the Commission on Social Rights and Comprehensive Disability Policies and opening the period for amendments to the text.

Once the parliamentary process is completed and the law is finally approved by the Cortes Generates, it will be published in the BOE and will enter into force within 20 days of its publication, which is expected to take place in the coming months.

Although modifications to the text of the current Bill are to be expected, these should not be very significant, and we therefore consider it of interest to make some brief comments on the current content of the Bill, given the relevance of the issues regulated, and all this while awaiting the final approval of the new law.

The Bill aims to extend social protection to families and to advance in the rights to reconciliation, with full legal recognition of the different types of families. Furthermore, this regulation will transpose Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019.