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Paternity leave > paternity we created them in 2002 > > ![\\"Pablo](\\" > married-white-4efa1a66ce3f10ea6a3f8f011850eb69.jpg\\"/) > > Pablo Casado Blanco Deputy ![\\"Share\\"](\\" content/themes/newtral/dist/assets/images/icons/share.png?x95607\\") ![\\"False\\"](\\" check-false.svg?x95607\\") Fake ![\\"WhatsApp\\"](\\"\\"/) WhatsApp ![\\"Facebook\\"](\\"\\"/) Facebook ![\\"Twitter\\"](\\"\\"/) Twitter ![\\"Meneame\\"](\\"\\"/) Wiggle me ![\\"Mail](\\"\\"/) Email ![\\"Link](\\"\\"/) Direct linkCopy By Lorena BaezaApril 12, 2019 | 4 min reading ![](\\" CCBY-7_20181009020448_782-1920x520.jpg?x95607\\") By Lorena BaezaApril 12, 2019 | 4 min reading * Equality * Pablo Casado * Popular Party (PP) The leader of the PP attributed the creation of permits to his party. paternity in 2002. It is **FALSE**. They were specifically regulated for everyone workers with the Equality Law of 2007 of the PSOE. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") The president of the PP assures that it was his party that created the permits paternity in our country in 2002. This is what he has defended in a interview on the Onda Cero program Más de uno. When asked about the decree laws approved by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, among them that of expansion of parental leave until it is equal in 2021 to that of mothers, he assured: "paternity leaves, which we create in 2002, we doubled them in the last legislature and in these "budgets went up to five weeks." With Mariano Rajoy, the permits were extended to four and five weeks, advance that arose from an agreement with Ciudadanos, but Casado also responded taking advantage of the creation of paternity leave in Spain, despite that the PP Government had nothing to do with it, it was something that a Government created socialist. ![\\"lists](\\"\\") The exceptions to the zipper lists introduced in the Parity Law ## Since when have paternity leaves been regulated? This right for parents was not created in 2002 as Casado says, it was established for the first time in our country with the Equality Law that the Government approved by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero five years later, in 2007. Then, the The law itself described paternity leave as "the most innovative measure to promote the reconciliation of personal, family and work life. It established thirteen days of leave, extendable in certain cases, and He specified that it was an "individual and exclusive right of the father." We have verified this by consulting the legislation, with sources from the Ministry of Labor and the Association for Equal and Non-transferable Permits (PPiiNA). ## And before the Equality Act 2007? According to this association specialized in these permits, before On this date, a step was taken that advanced the matter, although only for the public workers. It was the Concilia Plan that was approved in 2005, also with the Zapatero Government. A plan by which ten days of permits were granted for workers of the General State Administration. Independently of this, before the 2007 law, the permit for parents was two days and was regulated in the Workers' Statute. It was incorporated in the first text that was approved in 1980, in article 37b. ![\\"sonia](\\"\\") Who is Sonia Castedo, the former mayor of Alicante who has announced her return to the PP ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") While it was in force together with the paternity benefit, the leaves They were compatible. As the Ministry of Labor confirms to us: first they could enjoy the birth permit and right after that it began to count paternity, which added up to fifteen days. Currently, that has been eliminated from the Workers' Statute. specific regulation of the two days per birth. This is how it appears in the text published in the BOE since March of this year. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") ## Paternity leave, today Since April of this year, with the entry into force of the Royal Decree Law that extends paternity leave, fathers have eight weeks. He The increase will be progressive until 2021, the year in which the equalization of leave for mothers and fathers in sixteen weeks. Not only did the PP not create paternity leave in 2002, but that same year voted against three bills that proposed regulating that possibility. This is how the newspaper El País reported about it in March of that year. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") They also appear rejected in the journal of sessions of the Congress of the Deputies. ## Maternity leave Maternity leave was also regulated in the Workers' Statute. In which it was approved in 1980 under the presidency of Adolfo Suárez, it established a suspension with reservation of the job for a maximum duration of fourteen weeks Later, in 1989, with Felipe González in the government, that Maternity leave was extended to sixteen weeks to ensure "the adequate care of the mother's health and the best relationship between her and her son". With this data we can say that paternity leave was not created by the Popular Party, as Pablo Casado says. Your statement is FALSE. This The benefit was regulated for the first time in 2007 with the Employment Equality Law. Zapatero's government. ## The PP version We have consulted the Popular Party what Pablo Casado was referring to with his statement, but we have not received a response. ## Sources: Organic Law 3/2007, of March 22, for the effective equality of women and men. Concilia Plan approved in 2005 Law 8/1980, of March 10, on the Workers' Statute. Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, of October 23, which approves the consolidated text of the Workers' Statute Law. Update March 2019. Law 3/1989, of March 3, which extends the permit to sixteen weeks for maternity and measures are established to promote equal treatment of the woman at work. Royal Decree-Law 6/2019, of March 1, on urgent measures to guarantee equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men in employment and the occupation. Publication by El País about the PP's rejection of several proposals for regulate paternity benefits in March 2002. 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We created paternity leave in 2002