Spain’s Left-wing government has introduced paid climate leave after flash flooding in Valencia last month claimed at least 222 lives and caused widespread devastation.

Spain has approved four days of paid climate leave in the wake of deadly flooding late last month that killed nearly 230 people.

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

Spain's government has introduced paid leave for workers to avoid travel during weather emergencies. The new policy allows up to four days off. This follows deadly floods in Valencia last October that killed 230 people.

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