Labour and Social Security protection measures for victims of gender violence

Abstract

Gender violence is one of the greatest conflicts that society has today. It is com­mon to regret the loss of a women’s lifes owed to this cause, which allows to imagine the terrible hidden magnitude of the drama that, every day , thousands of women and their families suffer.                                                                          To try to improve this situation, the Royal Decree-Law 9/2018, of 3 August, of urgent measures for the development of the Pact of State against the gender violence, modifies some rules of the organic Law 1/2004, of 28 December, on comprehensive measures of protection against gegender violence, which do not have this nature of organic law, as well as law 7/1985, of 2 April, regulating the Bases of the Local Regime and the Civil Code, with the aim of giving an effective response to the assistance of the victims and their children and their daughter s minors.                                                                                                              Within this framework, this article focuses on analyzing the labour and social security fields included in the comprehensive Law on gender violence, as a basic and fundamental tool for battered women in order to have of economic independence, which is usually achieved through the performance of a job, hat strengthen the protection of social security.