Politics · Spain · 2 days ago
Unions ask Spain to study earlier retirement for home-care workers
Spanish unions CCOO and UGT have asked the Social Security ministry to consider earlier retirement for people who provide care in clients’ homes.
Their request covers home-care workers, not staff in care homes.
The unions say the job involves heavy physical work, tight schedules, travel between homes and often working alone.
They also point to health risks and difficulties getting help or improving conditions inside private homes.
The unions want the government to consider reduction coefficients, which can make each year worked count for a longer period and allow earlier retirement.
The request starts a process that will examine factors including sick leave and workplace accidents, and could lead to those coefficients being granted.
The employers’ association has not joined the request.
CCOO and UGT have asked Spain’s Social Security authorities to study earlier retirement for home-care workers.
The unions want the authorities to consider reduction coefficients, which can allow workers to retire earlier.
They say physical demands, fast work rhythms and working alone in clients’ homes affect workers’ health and quality of life.
The request concerns workers in private homes, not care workers in residential facilities.
The employers’ association did not join the request.
- Who
- The CCOO and UGT unions filed the request for home-care workers.
- What
- They asked Social Security to study whether reduction coefficients could allow earlier retirement.
- When
- Friday, 9 October 2026.
- Where
- At Spain’s Social Security authorities.
- Why
- The unions cite physical demands, working alone in homes and health problems linked to the job.
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que requiere reconocimiento, medidas concretas y debería ser una prioridad compartida por todas las partes implicadas
en solitario, sin ayuda, sin apoyo, con una alta demanda física para ejecutar las tareas, elevados ritmos de trabajo, en varios domicilios, con dificultades para recibir asistencia y en muchos de los casos en lugares de trabajo en condiciones penosas, tóxicas, insalubres y peligrosas para la seguridad y salud
la adopción de medidas preventivas en los mismos solamente puede llevarse a cabo con el acuerdo del propietario del inmueble
CCOO and UGT registered their request with Social Security.
A procedure begins to analyse workplace sick-leave and accident rates, which may lead to reduction coefficients being granted.
- Unions
- CCOO and UGT
- Request
- Study reduction coefficients for earlier retirement
- Sector workforce
- About 161,000 workers
- Workers
- Almost all are women
- Scope
- Home-care workers in private homes, not residential-care workers
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