Gender Equality Plans in Spain

27/02/2020.- Gender Equality Plans in Spain: As readers may remember, Decree-Law 6/2019 (“on the urgent measures to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities for women and men in employment and occupation”) included new measures to promote equality between men and women in the workplace (it also included various provisions to gradually increase statutory paternity leave to 16 weeks by 2021). Mainly, the new regulation extended the existing obligation to implement a gender equality plans in Spain to companies with 50 or more employees (previously 250 or more employees). Continue reading →