La protección de la maternidad y de la corresponsabilidad

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This paper analyses the amendments undertaken by The Royal Decree-Law 6/2019, dated 1 March, on urgent actions to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities between women and men in employment and occupation, about the right to the reconciliation of work and private life, taking into the progress made by the European Union with the Directive of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU. First, this paper analyses the normative and jurisprudential context, especially the doctrine adopted in relation to the protection of maternity and work-life balance from a gender perspective. Moreover, the study undertakes thelabour regulations and the Social Security of the new birth and child care permission, the nursing care permission, the right to the reduction and adaptation of the workday, and leaves to work-life balance. The study is finished with the study of the guarantee of the exercise of maternity and right to work-life balance.