This Sunday, June 18, Father’s Day is celebrated, one of the most important dates of the year for familieswhich highlights the paternity loving and responsible. In Peru, with the purpose of recognizing their rights, over time some benefits have been created, such as work licenses for those parents who have a formal employment. In this note, we tell you in which cases to request them and how many days of paid rest they must receive.
paternity leave
Paternity leave gives parents parents the right to receive 10 days off after the birth of their son or daughter, explains Aymé Límaco, a specialist in Labor Law.
Límaco specifies that the license period It may be longer than 10 days in the following three scenarios:
- When it comes to multiple or premature births (20 days)
- When the newborn has any severe disability or terminal congenital disease (30 days)
- when the mother suffers complications at parturition (30 days).
Regarding the license for adoption of a boy or girl under 12 years of age, the workers They are entitled to 30 days of paid leave.
Adoption leave grants workers 30 days of paid rest. Photo: Andean
sick leave
Peruvian legislation contemplates the license to medical assistance and rehabilitation therapy of people with disabilities. In this case, workers are entitled to 56 hours of leave per year, which can be used consecutively or alternately.
Sick leave applies in case the workers have children or minors with a disability.
If the working father requires more time to care for his son or daughter, he can talk and reach an agreement with your employer, making up the hours extraordinarily.
Legislation contemplates other licenses for parents, whose children have suffered an illness or an accident. Photo: diffusion
If your child has been diagnosed with cancer
Another license to take into account is the one regarding the care of the minor children who have been diagnosed with cancer.
On this point, the specialist details that those who are in this scenario can request license with pay for a period not exceeding one year. As he explains, the payment of the first 21 days is assumed by the employer and the remaining time, EsSalud.
Another scenario is that of the serious illness leave either serious accident of direct relatives. The law establishes that those who find themselves in this situation They are entitled to seven days off.
Leave for death of relatives
In this scenario, if the father loses his children or a direct relative, be it parents, wife or siblings, he should know that he is entitled to a five day rest period. This is done through Law 31602, which establishes leave for the death of family members in the private sector.
According to the regulations, if the death occurs in a different geographic location where the workplace is located workerthe license will be extended for the term of the distance.
Source: Larepublica
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