Spain's new law offers four days of paid climate leave to workers who are unable to get to work safely or work remotely during climate catastrophes.

Workers instructed by civil protection agencies to stay home due to unsafe conditions will be entitled to four days of paid leave

Workers in Spain now have access to "paid climate leave." The new measure, put in a place a month after deadly floods ravaged the Valencia region, allows workers to take up to four days of paid time off during weather emergencies rather than have to commute.

Several companies had drawn ire for ordering their employees to keep working even after the national weather agency issued a red alert at the time of the floods

In light of increasingly frequent extreme weather events, the Spanish government has approved the introduction of a four-day paid "weather leave." The new regulations introduced by the Spanish government are designed to assist employees who are unable to reach work due to adverse weather conditions.