The Council of Ministers approved on Sunday the list of essential activities in which workers may continue to attend their jobs and which will not be subject to the paid leave that must be made up later, from March 30 to April 9. Pending publication of the list in the Official State Gazette, this is the list included in the Government decree, according to a draft pending approval:
List of workers to whom recoverable paid leave is not applicable:
1. To working people in activities that must continue to be carried out under articles 10.1, 10.4, 14.4, 16, 17 and 18, of Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14, which declares the status of alarm.
2. To workers in activities that participate in the market supply chain and in the operation of services of production centers for essential goods and services, including food, beverages, hygiene products, medicines, health products or any product necessary for the protection of health, allowing their distribution from origin to final destination.
3. To workers in the hospitality and catering sectors who provide home delivery services.
4. To the workers of all productive activities of the manufacturing industrial sector and, in particular, those of the chemical sector, the sectors of manufacture of medicines and pharmaceuticals, the food and beverage sector, the subsectors of textiles, glass, tobacco, the producers of capital goods and the sectors of the value chain of manufacture of all types of health technology, medical material, protective equipment, health and hospital equipment, the sectors of production of pulp, paper, cardboard or cellulose, as well as those other related activities that offer the supplies, equipment, materials, raw materials or professional services necessary for the proper development of said activities.
5. To workers in activities that must provide transport services, both of people and goods, that continue to be carried out since the declaration of the state of alarm, as well as those who must ensure the maintenance of the means used for this purpose, under the regulations approved by the Competent Authority and the Delegated Competent Authorities since the declaration of the state of alarm.
6. To the Security Forces and Corps, to the personnel who provide services in Penitentiary Institutions and to the personnel of the civil protection, rescue and fire extinguishing services, as well as traffic and road safety.
7. To the Armed Forces.
8. To the personnel of private security companies that provide security transport services, alarm response, patrol or intermittent surveillance, and those that may be necessary to use for the performance of security services to guarantee essential services and the supply to the population.
9. To the workers of health centers, services and establishments, as well as those who care for the elderly, dependent persons or persons with disabilities, as well as the people who work in companies, entities and research centers in which projects related to COVID-19 are being developed, and against all those other diseases that involve clinical trials and proof of concept in progress; as well as the animal facilities associated with them and the companies providing services and supplying products necessary for research in these matters.
10. To domestic workers and caregivers.
11. To the workers who provide services in press sales points and in media or news agencies of public and private ownership, as well as in their printing or distribution.
12. To the workers of financial services and insurance companies.
13. To workers in the energy-intensive, steel and blast furnace industries and mining, as well as to workers in the production and supply of centralized heating or air conditioning services for multiple consumption centers.
14. To the workers of companies dedicated to the manufacture of lead-acid batteries, as well as any other materials necessary for the provision of health services.
15. To people who work in plants with a continuous production cycle or whose interruption may cause serious damage to the facility itself or danger of accidents.
16. To people who work in the aerospace and defense industry, as well as other activities of strategic importance to the national economy.
17. To the workers of telecommunications and essential IT services companies. In entities belonging to the Public Sector, as defined in Article 3 of Law 9/2017, of November 8, on Public Sector Contracts, which transposes into Spanish law Directives 2014/23/EU and 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of February 26, 2014, essential IT services shall be those that are indispensable for the proper provision of public services, as well as the functioning of non-face-to-face work by public employees.
18. To the workers of companies providing essential services related to the protection and care of victims of gender violence.
19. To workers who provide services in activities necessary for the management and payment of public benefits, subsidies and aid legally and regulatorily established and the operation of the Social Security System.
20. To workers who provide services in administrative and social graduate management offices, consultancies, professional offices, external and internal occupational risk prevention services and, in general, those dedicated to the activity of legal, tax, business and socio-labor advice or to the defense of the interests of consumers.
21. The staff employed by notaries and registries to fulfill the essential services established by the Directorate General for Legal Security and Public Faith.
22. To the civil authorities responsible for public health and the employees who provide services in this area, as well as those others directly or indirectly related to the management of the health emergency.
23. To the workers of funeral services , as well as the construction of niches and other related activities.
24. To workers who provide cleaning, maintenance and security services, as well as those who provide services related to the collection, management and treatment of hazardous waste, as well as urban solid waste, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, collection and treatment of wastewater, decontamination activities and other waste management services and removal of dead animals or in any of the entities belonging to the Public Sector, in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of Law 9/2017, of November 8, on Public Sector Contracts.
25. To the workers in the Refugee Reception Centres and in the Temporary Stay Centres for Immigrants and the public entities of private management subsidized by the State Secretariat for Migration and that operate within the framework of International Protection and Humanitarian Care.
26. To workers who participate in the provision of services that have been declared or may be declared essential by the competent Authority and the delegated competent Authorities under Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14.
27. To the staff of the operator designated by the State to provide the universal postal service, in order to provide the services of collection, acceptance, transport, sorting, distribution and delivery for the sole purpose of guaranteeing said universal postal service.
28. To persons who carry out the management and operation of toll highways, including the stations and service areas located on them.
29. To workers in water supply, purification, conveyance, treatment and sanitation activities.
30. To the workers in the provision of meteorological services including maintenance and surveillance services, control of operational processes linked to meteorological services, weather forecasting processes and aeronautical observation and defense observation/prediction processes.
31. Likewise, the provision of services to Public Administrations shall be considered an essential service when indispensable and to the extent necessary to guarantee the basic functioning of public services. Similarly, services providing management of essential public service facilities and infrastructure shall also be considered essential.
32. To persons who provide essential face-to-face services for customs clearance, customs surveillance, and those performed for the performance of critical services necessary for the application of the tax system.
33. To the workers who provide services in those sectors or subsectors that participate in the import and supply of health material, such as logistics, transport, storage, customs transit (freight forwarders) companies and, in general, all those that participate in the health corridors.
34. To people who provide services in logistics operators and textile or other industries dedicated or converted to the manufacture or import of medical supplies.
35. To the people who work in the distribution and delivery of products purchased through internet, telephone or mail order commerce.
36. To the people who provide the minimum services necessary for the maintenance and conservation of the facilities that stop their activity during the indicated period.
37. To workers who are already providing services remotely, unless otherwise agreed between the employer and the legal representation of the workers through collective bargaining or, in the absence of such representation, the workers themselves.
38. To workers who are in a situation of temporary incapacity during the days of validity of the leave regulated in this royal decree-law, as well as those whose contract is suspended for other legally provided causes, including those provided for in sections d) and e) of article 45.1 of Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, of October 23, which approves the consolidated text of the Workers' Statute Law.
39. Trade union and employer activity to provide services to companies and workers will also be considered an essential service .
40. Activities carried out by companies aimed at safeguarding the safety of people and the environment, animal health, mine safety, fire prevention and suppression, as well as those aimed at search and rescue of people, will be exempt from the suspension of non-essential activities.
