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The Ministry of Labor wants death leave to be extended to 10 days. Obstacle: Congress

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The Ministry of Labor plans to approve by royal decree law the extension of leave for the death of family members up to 10 days. Although the formula would allow its entry into force immediately after the Council of Ministers, there is a risk that the measure will end up being overturned later in Congress. Just like share El País, the Secretary of State for Labor, Joaquín Pérez Rey, confirmed this Tuesday that “the intention would be for the rule approving leave for bereavement and death to be an urgent rule” and that his “predisposition is to do so through a royal decree law shortly.” The Government’s strategy. By processing the norm as a decree law instead of as an ordinary draft law, the ministry led by Yolanda Díaz seeks to ensure that the extension of permits is applied immediately, without waiting to complete the entire parliamentary procedure. That would make the measure come into force the day after its publication in the BOE, although it then requires validation by Congress within a maximum period of one month. According to account In the middle, during that period, workers who suffer a family death could now access extended leave. Agreement. Job agreed with CCOO and UGT On December 15, the paid leave for the death of a spouse, common-law partner or relatives up to the second degree (parents, children, siblings, grandparents and grandchildren) was extended from the current two days (extendable to four in the event of displacement) up to 10 days. These could be used continuously or discontinuously within four weeks after death. Furthermore, just as share El País, the agreement includes a new 15-day permit for palliative care, divisible into two fractions over a period of three months, and one day of leave to accompany someone who is going to receive euthanasia, regardless of family ties. Rejection. The employers’ association CEOE and Cepyme have opposed the proposal because they consider that “it represents a new attempt to transfer to companies the cost and responsibility of public policies on care that corresponds to the Administration,” as they indicated in a statement. The lack of consensus in social dialogue marks the position of the PP, which has already announced its vote against following its criterion of rejecting labor measures that do not have the joint support of unions and employers. Key vote in the air. Parliamentary arithmetic turns Junts and PNV into decisive pieces in approving or not the measure. Just like they point From El País, the Catalan nationalists have already joined together with PP and Vox to overturn the reduction in working hours and have maintained very critical positions with other proposals rejected by unions and employers, such as the increase in the self-employed quota. For the measure to be approved, the Executive would need the support of the entire left plus the support of Junts and PNV, or at least the yes of one and the abstention of the other. Comparisons with Europe. Labor has been highlighting Spain’s delay compared to neighboring countries in regards to death leave. From the middle they point out that Portugal extended the paid leave for the death of a spouse in 2023 to 20 days, equal to that of children, while in France 12 working days are granted for the death of children and 14 if the deceased is under 25 years of age. According to the ministry, the current two days in Spain are insufficient to face a duel. A controversial vote. The decision to take the measure through a decree law responds to a clear intention to make it difficult for the opposition to reject it, since it is a measure of high social sensitivity. “suffering from the death of a son or daughter” is “not a question of the right or the left,” counted Pérez Rey in the middle. Cover image | Wikimedia Commons In Xataka | Deepfakes are much more than a bad joke. Now the Government wants them to be a violation of the right to honor

How much are the discounts extended, what are the prices and how to renew

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Let’s tell you How are Madrid transport passes in 2026?which since 2023 has been allowing citizens of the Community of Madrid to have discounts. Since then, these discounts have been extended for periods of 6 and 12 months, and will also reach 2026. We are going to start the article by telling you how long the transport pass discounts are extended, and then we will end by telling you what the quantities are. How much are transport passes extended? Discounts on the transport pass for the Community of Madrid they are expanded throughout 2026. Therefore, everything continues as beforeso that the price of public transport does not rise, and the same economic conditions of the last six months are maintained. What are the discounts The three types of free subscription continue that already existed, being for children up to 7 years old, people over 65, or the card for children under 14 years old. Furthermore, you also have 50% discounts on the Youth Subscriptionaimed at people between 15 and 25, who will be able to continue traveling throughout the region for a price of 10 euros per month. In addition to this, users between 26 and 64 years old They maintain their 40% discount. Besides, 10 trip vouchers also maintain the discount for the Metro, EMO and ML1. In short, the prices are like this: discounted price in 2026 undiscounted price in 2022 zone fertilizer 32.70 euros 54.60 euros zone b1 fertilizer 38.20 euros 63.70 euros zone b2 fertilizer 43.20 euros 72 euros zone b3 fertilizer 49.20 euros 82 euros zone c1 fertilizer 49.20 euros 82 euros zone c2 fertilizer 49.20 euros 82 euros senior citizen pass Free Free youth pass (15-26 years) 10 euros 20 euros subscription 7-14 years Free – children’s card (

Public transport faces 2026 with extended aid and the approved Single Pass: there is still one step ahead

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Public transport enters 2026 with two decisions already made and an important nuance still pending to be resolved. The Council of Ministers has approved the extension of current aid throughout next year and has given the green light to the Single Passa new flat rate that will begin operating in January and that seeks to simplify access to state-run trains and buses. The announcement consolidates a policy that the Government has been implementing since 2018, but also leaves the final procedure pending. The key date is January 1, but not for the arrival of a new system, but for the continuity of the current one. From that day on, the bonuses remain in force. The Single Pass, which does introduce a different model, will have a later start and will not be available until the second half of January. The entire plan has planned financing of more than 1,371 million euros by 2026. Extension with changes. Although the aid is extended, the scheme does not remain intact. The main novelty for 2026 is in the way of financing them in regional and local transport: the Ministry of Transport will cover the 20% general bonus for the rest of the subscriptions without conditioning that contribution on the competent administrations adding another 20%. {“videoId”:”x8d81cm”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”Free Renfe passes”, “tag”:””, “duration”:”30″} In practice, users will find in 2026 a scheme very similar to the current one, with nuances depending on the territory and the operator. State-owned buses will maintain free child tickets and the main subsidized passes, including reinforced discounts for young people. Renfe: continuity and new incentives. Bonuses on Renfe services will continue to be one of the central pieces of the system in 2026. Commuter passes with reduced rates, free children’s tickets and discounts on Media Distancia and Avant are maintained, in line with what has been applied until now, while new features are introduced for recurring travelers. The Ministry emphasizes that these measures have had a notable impact on the use of the railway: more than 14 million tickets sold since their implementation and an estimated saving of around 1.5 billion euros for travelers. Pass Via enters the scene. Renfe will introduce some changes in 2026 aimed at recurring travelers. The main novelty is the new quarterly “Pase Vía” subscription for Avant services, which will apply progressive discounts (from 45% to 72%) depending on the number of trips made and will allow you to pay for each ticket without an initial outlay. Added to this is the Cronos Cercanías system, which will offer a 40% discount from the fifth trip when access is made by paying with the bank card directly at the turnstiles. The new Single Pass. The new state flat rate adds to the mosaic of existing aid with a different logic. The Single Pass will allow unlimited travel for 30 days on Renfe Cercanías, Rodalies and Media Distancia and on state-owned interregional buses for 60 euros, or 30 euros in the case of those under 26 years of age. It will be available from the second half of January and will require prior user registration. In Xataka The single public transport ticket promises to change the mobility of our country for 60 euros. We have many doubts Although the measures have already been approved by the Council of Ministers, the institutional path is not completely closed. The extension of the aid is articulated through a royal decree-law, a figure that allows its immediate entry into force but that requires subsequent validation by Congress within the constitutional period. On this occasion, the text is processed independently and is not included in a broader decree, a decision that would facilitate its parliamentary validation. Images | RENFE | Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility In Xataka | There will be no insurance or registration for electric scooters on January 2, 2026: the DGT has confirmed it (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news Public transport faces 2026 with extended aid and the approved Single Pass: there is still one step ahead was originally published in Xataka by Javier Marquez .

Tiktok was hours again in the US. Donald Trump has just extended the prohibition period again

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Millions of Tiktok users in the United States woke up this Friday without knowing if the next day they could continue using the application. Bytedonce, the social network’s parent company, had a deadline on Saturday, April 5 to sell its operations in the country. If not, a law approved in 2024 would technically prevent him from continuing to operate in US territory. Donald Trump, who had already stopped the veto on his first day of mandate, has intervened again. This time he has done it through an executive order that extends in 75 days the deadline before the measure enters into force. It is a temporary respite not only for those who use it by entertainment, but also for many content and merchants who use it regularly. The sale of Tiktok wins time. “My administration has worked hard to reach an agreement to save Tiktok and we have made considerable progress. The agreement requires more work to ensure that all the necessary approvals are signed,” said the White House tenant in a publication in Truth Social. “We hope to work with Tiktok and China to close the agreement,” he added. Several interested buyers. The possible sale of Tiktok in the United States has aroused the interest of several technological giants. In recent days they have sounded Names like Walmart, Amazon, Oracle and Applovin. Investment signatures such as Blackstone have also appeared. Although there is no official confirmation, Trump has already advanced that “There are many potential buyers.” Tariffs as a weapon. Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are news again for its international impact. In the case of China, which already faced a 2 %rate, new taxes of 34 %have been recently added, which raises the total of 54 %. In this context, Trump has suggested that he is willing to soften them if the Chinese government collaborates to facilitate the Tiktok sales agreement. China must authorize the agreement. Tiktok initially refused to sell its operations in the United States, but it seems that the position has begun to move. Today, a possible agreement no longer seems so far or unlikely. Of course: any decision must inevitably happen by the Chinese government, which does not go through its best moment in relations with Washington due to the current tariff war. How have we get here? The current situation has its origin in a lEy approved in 2024, during the mandate of Joe Bidenthat forces Bytedance to sell Tiktok operations in the United States or face its ban. The central argument of American legislators is the risk to national security: they fear that the Chinese government can force the parent company to deliver user data. In January, Tiktok was inaccessible for about 14 hours After the first deadline without agreement expired. Application stores removed the app, but access was restored after Donald Trump’s promise to postpone the measure. The day he assumed the position, he signed an executive order that extended the prohibition period for 75 days, which won on Saturday and has been extended. Images | Solen Feyissa | Brandon Day | The White House In Xataka | How will the end of Tiktok in the US: without updates, outside stores and a progressive degradation until its total shutdown

The procedures can be extended more than expected

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The Council of Ministers has given the green light to the processing of the draft law to reduce working hours at 37.5 hours a week without salary reduction. That does not mean that the reduction will be applied immediately, but that it is another step in the approval process and gives free way to be debated in Congress in the coming months. Has the Law on Day Reduction been approved? No. The Council of Ministers has given its conformity to Draft for the reduction of day that the Ministry of Labor and Social Economics and the unions They signed In December 2024 after a year of negotiations. This procedure is necessary for the Government to present the deletion to the Congress of Deputies. Once between the agenda of the parliamentary sessions, the different parliamentary groups will vote their approval prior amendments to the text. The text is not definitive. As the name implies, the text of the draft for the reduction of day is a provisional working document, which parliamentary groups can propose amendments, annuling or adding measures to the proposal, until finally a consensus is reached and approved. The processing time in Congress will depend on the amendments and negotiations between the different parliamentary groups. Given the current political arc fragmentation, it is possible that the parliamentary journey of this law will be extended over time due to the negotiations that the Government will need to achieve its final approval and is more than probable that its final text undergoes modifications with respect to the proposal. When the reduction of working hours will be applied. Assuming that the processing in Congress follows its usual course, the day reduction law It could be approved before summer. However, there is no closed term for approval since, as we say, it will depend on parliamentary negotiations. Once it is approved, article 34 of the Workers Statute To replace the weekly 40 hours of the current day, for 37.5 hours of the new day. At this point, the clock will be launched and the different negotiation tables of collective agreements must include the new 37.5 -hour day in those who contemplated a 40 -hour day. That said, and taking into account that all the previous deadlines are fulfilled, it leads us to reduce the day to 37.5 hours could enter into force as of December 31, 2025. Much more than reducing the day. The text that will arrive at Congress (which does not have to be the same that comes out) has as its main pillar the reduction of working hours to a maximum of 37.5 hours per week for the full day, or its equivalent in the part -time models, No salary reduction. This measure is framed in the objective of Improve productivity and family conciliation. However, to ensure effective compliance with the reduction of working hours, a modification of the day registration system. This registration must be carried out through digital means, guaranteeing objectivity, reliability and accessibility to employees, union representatives and labor inspection. Workers must register the entry, exit and any interruption In your day and these records must be maintained for four years. The draft does not detail whether the government will create a new platform, if it can be carried out with any of the digital registration platforms that already exist or how that registry will be made. More rights and more obligations. The draft law that will arrive at Congress also addresses the inalienable right to Digital disconnectiona right that was already addressed in the process of the call Teleworking Lawbut that is reinforced with this new rule. Employees are explicitly exemp Reason for sanctions or reprisals. Exceptions are only established in cases of justified emergency. With the new standard, new sanctions are also included, increasing the amount of fines to companies that Failure to comply with the day regulationsrest and schedule registration and how to account it, which will no longer impose for each type of sanction, but for each employee affected by breach. In Xataka | Employees in Spain clear doubts: working less days is better than working less hours, according to a survey Image | Pexels (Paul h) Wikimedia Commons (Vickbol)

Extended alert for severe winds in Southern California

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The red flag warning by dangerous Santa Ana winds extended until Thursday night in Southern California, while The region affected by the fires takes precautions against possible rains expected this weekend. According to the National Weather Service (NWS)although the intensity of the winds tends to decrease, they will continue until this Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, but an increase in intensity is forecast from Wednesday night to Thursday afternoon. The NWS Red Flag Warning It is valid until 8:00 pm this Thursdayeffective for a large swath of Southern California, amid a slight increase in temperatures. Keep reading: Newsom signs order to speed up fire debris removal during the weekend There will be a drop in thermometers as humidity enters southern California from the north.which brings the possibility of light rains, with the threat of causing landslides in areas burned by the fires. NWS canceled previous weather alert due to fire risk and was replaced by a red flag warning for high winds. Humidity levels will remain very low, between 2 and 10%. Winds from the northeast are forecast to reach 20 to 30 miles per hour with gusts up to 50 miles per hour. More intense winds will be recorded in mountainous areas. Keep reading: Los Angeles approves economic aid plan for workers affected by fires According to the NWS, satellite images showed a high pressure system over the west coast, although A low pressure system was also seen moving towards the south of the country. This Friday night, a storm from northern Canada will head towards the west coastwith the possibility of arriving accompanied by rain. According to the forecasts, Los Angeles could get 0.25 inches of rainwhile in the Inland Empire precipitation of 0.40 inches is expected. Keep reading: Risk in burned areas of Los Angeles due to upcoming rains Given the forecast of the arrival of rains, Local and state officials accelerated work to remove debris in areas affected by the Eaton and Palisades fires. Work is accelerated to remove debris in areas affected by the fires.Credit: CAROLINE BREHMAN | EFE Besides, progress is made in the work of installing reinforced barriers and in the identification of properties at risk. “Soils in a burned area are highly erodibleso flood waters may contain significant amounts of mud, rocks and vegetation,” the NWS said. Keep reading: Fire victims in Los Angeles return home to find a desolate panorama Meteorologists warned that new fires or those that are still active can spread rapidly during red flag alert. People who have their homes in areas near wilderness areas were urged to be prepared in the event that have to evacuate urgently if a new forest fire breaks out. Keep reading:· Second day of strong winds in Southern California· Fake firefighters arrested in Los Angeles fire zone· Firefighters put out two new fires that broke out this Monday in Los Angeles

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