A dozen laws and decrees on which the Spanish Government and the legislature were working will die without seeing the light of day after the election call and the dissolution of the Courts. It is not new, it always happens when a date is set for a general election. Hours and hours of debate, of lost parliamentarians’ work waiting for the next executive, if he so wishes, to be rescued. Or not
And this now also happens with laws that were already drawn up and that only needed 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 established the right of workers to be able to take care of their closest relatives and the people they lived with (whether they were family or if not) when they fell ill, whether they were hospitalized or not (so far, only for hospital admission and only for family members).
The family law included a carer’s leave of five days a year, which could be used in the event of a serious accident or illness, hospitalization or non-hospital surgery requiring rest, both of a family member up to 2nd degree as of a cohabitant. And another parental leave of eight weeks, which could be enjoyed continuously or intermittently, full-time or part-time, until the minor turned eight, and a third new leave “due to force majeure”, which it would be distributed by hours and could reach a total of four days a year.
In addition, he considered single parents with two children as large families, a historical demand of this group, which they now see frustrated.
What will also be left in a drawer is the right to be forgotten about cancer, which sought to ensure that people who had suffered from cancer in their lifetime did not have to justify their history when they decided to take out life insurance , ask for any type of loan or even buy a home. All 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 complicated for this article to go ahead, even though all parties consider it unfair that former cancer patients are prevented from accessing certain services. No, however, with the provision of the General Directorate of Traffic that has just been approved, which allows them to renew their driving license like the rest of drivers.
The customer service law, which came out under the direction of Minister Alberto Garzón, falls, as well as the obligation of essential service companies such as gas and electricity, passenger transport and communications services electronic, to have an effective system to provide information, attend to and resolve complaints and claims quickly. Among others, make available to customers a personalized telephone service and a telephone number, both free of charge, to attend to their complaints and claims, as well as any contractual incidence.
This law was intended to prevent more than 1.3 billion kilos of food ending up in the trash every year. 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 established the implementation of tolls in the center of cities to reduce polluting emissions.
And there will be no mental health law that provided for the raising of “the ratios of professionals to place them in European parameters” because, although all the parties agree, the reality is that its processing will little progress and it looks like it will stay that way.
Do you remember the row that the PSOE and Podemos had about prostitution? Finally, the socialist proposal to punish all types of pimping, without the need for an exploitative relationship, and the so-called locative third party, which constitutes an aggravated modality of the crime of pimping, with increased punishment, comes to naught.
