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length of service in the post.The priority for choosing is
alternated each year.
• Special timetable in summer, Easter and Christmas:
In
summer and at Easter and Christmas, employees are
allowed to leave work at 3 pm or 3:30 pm provided
this is permitted by the organisational requirements of
their work.
• Reduced timetable on Fridays:
The distribution of the
working week means that for those positions where
the organisation of the work allows, employees work
uninterruptedly for 6 hours of Fridays, normally leaving
at 3 pm.
• Childbirth:
The two days allowed for childbirth are
working days rather that the calendar days established
by default in theWorkers’ Statute.
• Family reasons:
For reasons of serious illness,
hospitalization or surgery, death of relatives up to the
second level of consanguinity or marriage, the statutory
two days working leave is also based on working days,
rather than calendar days.
• One day’s paid leave due to the marriage of parents,
children or siblings:
One day’s paid leave is allowed
due to the marriage of parents, children or siblings.The
allowance is two days (the second not paid) if the event
takes place outside the Madrid Region.
• Flexibility in marriage leave:
Marriage leave can be
taken three days prior to the celebration of the event. If
the wedding is on Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday
the period of 15 days starts to run from the first day
following.
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Equal treatment of common-law partners:
Equality of
treatment of married and common-law couples and
partners is established on questions of leave.
To bring together and streamline all the information
required in this area, the measures described above al
all other measures implemented by the Company are
contained in the Work/Life Balance Guide, available to
employees on the Company’s intranet.
To facilitate the communication of these measures to all
employees, the Collective Agreements and an Equality
and Welfare Benefits Guide containing all the measures
approved in these areas are available on the Company’s
intranet.
Rate of return to work and retention after
parental leave:
2011 2012 2013
No. of women taking maternity
leave in 2013
52 59 39
No. of men taking paternity
leave in 2013
30 42 30
In all cases in which parental leave has been granted the
persons in question have returned to work and have been
retained in their work positions.
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