{"id":425352,"date":"2024-11-29T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=425352"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Flood-hit-Spain-introduces-climate-leave-for-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Flood-hit-Spain-introduces-climate-leave-for-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood-hit Spain introduces &#8216;climate leave&#8217; for workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&#8217;s leftist government on Thursday approved a &#8220;paid climate leave&#8221; of up to four days for workers to avoid travelling during weather emergencies, a month after floods killed 230 people.<\/p>\n<p>Several companies came under fire after the October 29 catastrophe for ordering employees to keep working despite a red alert issued by the national weather agency.<\/p>\n<p>The firms said the authorities failed to inform them sufficiently and sent telephone alerts too late during the European country&#8217;s deadliest floods in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The new measure aims to &#8220;regulate in accordance with the climate emergency&#8221; so that &#8220;no worker must run risks&#8221;, Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz told public broadcaster RTVE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If emergency authorities raise the alarm about a risk, &#8220;the worker must refrain from going to work&#8221;, said Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>Employees can resort to a reduced working day beyond the four-day period, a mechanism that already exists for emergencies, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo warned the cost of extreme weather events could double by 2050 as the government confirmed 2.3 billion euros of fresh aid for flood victims.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say climate change driven by human activity is fuelling the increased length, frequency and ferocity of natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p>vab\/imm\/tw<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/1c280bf7569e156cb5b529a7a11c38e8.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>After Spain&#8217;s worst flood disaster in decades, the government has introduced paid &#8216;climate leave&#8217; for workers facing an emergency<\/p>\n<p>-Jose Jordan<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&#8217;s leftist government on Thursday approved a &#8220;paid climate leave&#8221; of up to four days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}