US EditionEuropean Justice Sanctions Spain with Almost 7 Million Euros for Failing to Meet the Deadlines for Paying Parental Leave
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has agreed to sanction Spain with €6.8 million for failing to meet the deadlines for implementing the directive on the reconciliation of family life and the professional life of parents and carers, which requires an improvement in parental childcare leave.The resolution comes precisely the same week in which the Council of Ministers has extended the birth leave and established two extra weeks pai…
Europe Fined Spain for Delaying the Extension of Paid Parental Leave, Mandatory Throughout the Union
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has just announced that it sanctions Spain for delaying the adoption of all the necessary provisions of the directive on the reconciliation of family life and the professional life of parents and carers. A measure requiring payment of the allowance for the last two weeks of parental leave. The Government’s haste to implement this measure, approved on Tuesday in Council of Ministers, was in fact i…
In 2024, the European Commission brought an action for failure to fulfil obligations before the Court of Justice of the European Union against Spain, for failure to adopt or notify within the time limit laid down in those measures for conciliation
Just three days after the Council of Ministers approved the rule to increase birth and childcare leave by three weeks (from 16 to 19, allowing the last two to eight years for the minor), European justice has hit Spain and sentenced it to a fine of more than €6.8 million for failing to transpose in time the European Directive on the reconciliation of the working and family life of parents and caregivers, which obliges it to make this improvement …
The Court of Justice of the European Union condemned Spain on Friday to pay 6,832,000 euros for failing to comply with its obligations to bring European legislation on the reconciliation of family and working life into line with its domestic law.In addition, it threatened a daily periodic penalty payment of 19,700 euros in case the breach declared persists on the date of delivery of the judgment.Finally, the Court sentenced Spain to bear the cos…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ordered Spain to pay a fine of €6,832,000 for failing to timely adapt its national legislation to the 2019 European Directive on the reconciliation of work and family life, which requires improved leave for parents and carers. The fine comes just three days after the government approved an extension of parental and childcare leave. Furthermore, the Court threatened a daily penalty payment of €19,700…
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