The self-employed will be able to enjoy maternity and paternity leave

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The bonus contributions will allow self-employed workers to have leave for maternity, paternity, adoption, custody for adoption purposes, foster care and even risk due to pregnancy or breastfeeding, reports Estellés Abogados .

On March 1, the Law on Urgent Self-Employment Reforms came into force , which includes a new system for calculating maternity and paternity benefits for the self-employed. From this date, the maternity or paternity Email Data benefit is calculated with the sum of the contribution bases for the six months prior to the event. Previously, only the base of the previous month's contribution was taken into account.

Estellés Abogados remembers that the contribution base can be changed up to four times a year. For the lawyer Encarnación Donet, “ by expanding the range of contributions to be taken into account, the subsidy obtained is more objective and tighter, and avoids situations in which if the self-employed person, just in the month prior to the causative event, due to any circumstance, would not have contributed even though he had been contributing during the rest of the year, would lose the right to obtain the aforementioned subsidy, as occurred on some occasions before this date.

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In Spain there are more than 3.2 million self-employed workers, of which approximately 35% are women, as reported by the INE . Starting this year they have some benefits to encourage the incorporation of women into the labor market. The extension of the Flat Rate bonus and the 100% exemption from the self-employed quota during the duration of maternity leave without the need to hire anyone to replace you, are some of these advantages.

«Self-employed people who request paternity leave may also benefit from this measure although for a shorter duration, one month in the case of paternity leave and sixteen weeks for maternity, with in the case of maternity it being essential that the rest be at least of a month,” adds Donet.

The bonus that will be applied is the result of applying the mandatory contribution rate in the special regime corresponding to the worker's average base in the previous 12 months.