There are many women (and few men, and that's why I talk about them and not about them) that after finishing the ridiculous maternity leave of 16 weeks they decide to take leave or stop working to take care of their baby.
Sometimes it is only for one year, although in others it is for a longer time. This happens because the woman has perhaps another child (and sometimes more than one) and is linking the care of one with the other, because she decides not to work until the child enters school and for other possible reasons, so that they can pass several years without getting to work.
Several years without working means several years without charge and several years without contributing to social security. In this situation, Some people think that mothers who stay at home taking care of their children should be compensated in some way.
That said, it seems that the one who thinks is me, but no, they are more important people and with more power to decide and change things, such as the Senate Labor Commission, which in July approved an amendment that allows to add up to five years of contribution to people who have interrupted their professional career to take care of their children.
To be more specific, the amendment reads as follows:
“The interruption of the contribution derived from the termination of employment or the end of the collection of benefits produced between the nine months prior to birth, or the three prior to the adoption or permanent foster care, and the end of the sixth year shall be counted as the quoted period after that situation ”.
This reform will take effect in 2013 and it is a right that only one of the two parents will be recognized.
But not only in the Senate do they consider that a person who takes care of their children deserves some kind of compensation. The Supreme Court has also recently recognized the "work" done at home by a mother who stopped working to take care of her daughter.
The sentence, which creates jurisprudence, is intended for those people who after leaving their job to take care of their children or the elderly, are separated from their partners. In this specific case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the mother, having to pay, the ex-husband, 108,000 euros as compensation for the fifteen years she was out of work.
To reach this amount it was calculated that a domestic worker would charge 600 euros per month and multiplied by the twelve months of the year and the fifteen years that the marriage lasted.
Well, now is when I ask for your opinion: Should they somehow compensate mothers who stay at home taking care of their children?
