The lactation permit consists in the possibility of being able to be absent one hour from work when you have a child, being able to divide said hour into two 30-minute fractions. In case you want to reduce the day, this permit is reduced to half an hour (if you want to start later or end earlier). This permission lasts until the baby turns 9 months and to date it could be requested by both the mother and the father as long as they were both employed.
If the mother was autonomous, if she took a leave of absence or if the father did not work, she was not entitled to it, however, the Court of Justice of the European Union stated in October that Spanish law was discriminatory and the Government has decided to resolve this issue. modifying the Statute of Workers.
From that change, and this is the good news, parents can also request a nursing license regardless of the mother's employment status.
Apparently, the Luxembourg Court considered that Spanish law could make a self-employed mother have to limit her professional activity by taking care of her baby alone, without being able to receive help from the father.
With the new regulation the law will speak indistinctly of "workers" and "workers", since now it only says "the worker", and will indicate that it is "an individual right" of both parents. If both parents work, they can enjoy the nursing license either. If only one of the two is employed You may also request permission, whether male or female.
The truth is that it seems good news for all parents that we begin to take into account in the care of babies even when they are already a few months old. Now it would only be necessary that in the search for equality they did not stay there and that they also allowed us to take the maternity leave of 16 weeks when the mother does not work, for example, or to equalize us in our leave to 16 weeks as well. Although posts to ask, I almost prefer to leave us as we are and to increase maternity leave, which is ridiculous even more.
