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leave, extended by the additional week indicated in
the previous point.
• As regards those companies to which the Madrid
Regional Collective Agreement for Office Workers is
applicable, there is paid leave of 15 working days in
respect of the accumulated breastfeeding allowance.
• Maternity protection: As a measure aimed at protecting
maternity, pregnant employees have a parking place
reserved at the Fuencarral facilities from the start of
their pregnancy.
• The Mediaset España Collective Agreement enables
pregnant women with on-call timetables (entailing
constant timetable changes) to temporarily suspend
such timetables as from the sixth month of pregnancy
and during the nursing period.
• Dividing paid leave: In cases of childbirth, death, accident,
serious illness and hospitalisation or surgery without
hospitalisation which requires rest at home, for family
members up to the second degree of consanguinity
or marriage, with a view to serving the purpose of
this form of leave which is to facilitate any necessary
accompaniment of the family member or performance
of administrative formalities, the possibility exists of
dividing one of the two working days into hours to be
used flexibly in line with the needs of the employee and
facilitate the resolution of family-related issues.
• Bringing forward following year’s holidays: Up to five
days of holidays of the following year, if all holiday time
has been exhausted and, if applicable, the three days
leave for private matters for the year in progress may
be brought forward in case of need caused by serious
illness of family members up to the second degree of
consanguinity or marriage.
Mediaset España’s Collective Agreement also contains
other measures relating to employees’ life/work balance:
• Flexible timetable: The Company allows employees to
adapt their working timetable to reconcile more easily
their personal and family life with their work, and help
them develop both professionally and personally. In this
respect, the Mediaset España Collective Agreement
provides for a system of flexible working hours that
may be applied on a daily basis for personnel working
on ordinary timetables. Under this system, employees
have a margin of up to 30 minutes before or after the
commencement of their daily timetable and/or their
lunch break. The corresponding adjustment is made
to the time they leave work to ensure that the daily
timetable is complied with in full.
• Employees on shift work also have thirty minutes’
flexibility in starting time provided continuity of service
is ensured.Time used in this way is made up on a weekly
basis.
• On-call personnel have a maximum break of one hour,
which may be up to two hours, in which case employees
are notified beforehand.
• Paid leave: Each employee has 25 hours a year of
paid leave for personal activities such as medical
appointments for themselves or accompanying close
relatives, completing administrative formalities, attending
school meetings for children or examinations, etc.
• Paid time off: Paid leave is provided for the time required
by employees to visit specialist medical practitioners.
• Time off for personal matters: Each employee is
allowed three days per year for attending to personal
matters (the days may be taken individually) which may
be freely used and which do not require subsequent
justification as to how the time was used.
• Vacations: Days of vacation are established as follows:
27 working days of holidays for staff who work 38 hours
and 20 minutes per week; 37 working days for staff who
work 40 hours per week (in shifts); 29 working days for
staff who work 38 hours and 45 minutes per week; and
32 days for staff who work the whole year entirely on
the night shift.
• Preference in choosing shifts: The following order
of preference in choosing shifts is provided for,
in accordance with the Collective Agreement: 1.
Common accord of workers involved; 2. workers with
family responsibilities; 3. workers with greatest length
of service in the Company; 4. workers with greatest