What kind of leave can employees take? How? When? In this post we present a basic guide to the main paid leaves regulated in the Workers’ Statute. These leaves can be developed, extended or enhanced through the collective bargaining agreement applicable to each company.
Paid leave is an authorization by the company to employees so that they can be absent from their job, while maintaining their remuneration. The Workers’ Statute establishes a list of cases (which may be improved by the applicable collective bargaining agreement) in which the employee, with prior notice and justification, may be entitled to such paid leave.
We summarize below the main types of leave included in this regulation, and an additional case of justified absence which, although it is really a suspension of the employment contract, is known as “parental leave”:
In addition, the paid leave regulated in Royal Decree-Law 7/2024, of November 11, adopting urgent measures to promote the Immediate Response, Reconstruction and Relaunching Plan in response to the damage caused by the Isolated Depression at High Levels (DANA, for the acronym in Spanish) in different municipalities between October 28 and November 4, 2024, can be consulted here.
Juan Pascual Caballero
