Overview

• It increases paid birth and care leave from 16 to 17 weeks, plus two fully paid flexible weeks up to a child’s eighth birthday, bringing biparental entitlement to 19 weeks.
• Monoparental families will receive 32 weeks of paid leave, of which four weeks can be taken flexibly until children turn eight.
• All new entitlements are retroactive to August 2024, allowing families to claim additional leave benefits for eligible births and caregiving since that date.
• Spain has been accruing EU fines of around €9,000 per day since missing the August 2024 transposition deadline, set to rise above €40,000 daily from August 1.
• The decree reflects a compromise between Sumar and PSOE following internal coalition negotiations and now awaits parliamentary convalidation under EU Directive 2019/1158.