Article 28.- Paid leave.

1.-The staff, with prior notice and justification, may be absent from work, with the right to retribution, and from the occurrence of the causal event, for any of the reasons and for the following time:

a) Fifteen calendar days in case of marriage.

b) Three calendar days in case of the birth of a son or daughter.

c) Three calendar days in case of accident, serious illness or hospitalization, or surgical intervention without hospitalization requiring home leave, of relative up to second degree of consanguinity or affinity, which will be enjoyed continuously within ten calendar days, counted from the day on which the causal event occurs, inclusive.

d) Four calendar days in case of death of spouse, father, mother, political parents, political mothers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters.

e) Two calendar days in case of death, of relative up to the second degree of consanguinity or affinity.

f) In the cases contemplated in the previous sections c) and d), when a displacement of 200 kilometers or more is needed, the permits will increase one day more than indicated in each case. In section e) when you have to travel 200 kilometers or more, the permit will be four days.

g) Two calendar days for transfer of the habitual residence that will not be cumulative to the license by marriage.

h) For the time indispensable for the fulfilment of an inexcusable duty of a public and personal nature. When the fulfilment of the aforementioned duty implies the impossibility of work due to more than 20% of the working hours in a period of three months, the company may transfer the affected person to the situation of compulsory leave, with the right to recovery of the job when the obligation to fulfil the duty of a public and personal nature ends. If the affected person receives economic remuneration in the fulfilment of the duty or performance of the position, the amount of the same will be deducted from the salary to which he was entitled in the company.

i) A natural day for marriage of father or mother, son, daughter, sister or brother, on the date of celebration of the event.

In any case, the paid leave regulated in the previous sections must be enjoyed continuously.

2.-The staff will be entitled to the use of up to 35 paid hours per year, to attend consultations of Social Security physicians, should notify as soon as possible and must present timely justification. Nevertheless, the affected persons will try to adapt, when it is possible, their hours of medical visits to their breaks.