Sentences with phrase «father takes parental leave»

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, fitness breaks legitimized in the work schedule, requiring all employees to take a substantial part of their vacation time off, turning off email while on vacation, providing paid parental leave for new parents and encouraging both mothers and fathers to take advantage with no adverse career impact, paid time off for volunteer activities, and more.

taking of paternity / parental leave does not seem, in Sweden, to impact negatively on fathers» work prospects in the longer term (O'Brien, 2004).

If substantial paternity / parental leave were made available to UK fathers and were paid at reasonable rates and if this were taken up by substantial numbers of fathers this would require a revolution in thinking by government, employers, trades unions and others about the work / care nexus which could benefit not only fathers but mothers and children too (Green & Parker, 2006; Lewis & Cooper, 2005)-- and, ultimately, employers too.

Chancellor George Osborne's announcement that the Government will extend shared parental leave and pay to grandparents will undermine gender equality by reducing the likelihood of fathers taking the leave, the Fatherhood Institute has said.

Paternity / parental leave, often with a specific «father quota» (i.e. leave which, if not taken by the father is lost to the family) and the ability to work shorter hours and / or more flexibly when children are young have been available to fathers in Scandinavia for several decades.

In Sweden, where fathers» uptake of paternity and parental leave is relatively high, there has been no systematic cost - benefit analyses of the financial impact of take up on organizations.

Use of unpaid parental leave by fathers is low: 8 % of fathers (who described themselves as entitled) had taken some unpaid parental leave within 17 months of their child's birth (La Valle et al. 2008).

• In Sweden it has been estimated that ach additional month of parental leave taken by the father increases the mother's earnings by 6.7 % (Johannson, 2010).

Some fathers take Annual Leave instead of, or as well as, paternity / parental leave, particularly where that is not available or is low Leave instead of, or as well as, paternity / parental leave, particularly where that is not available or is low leave, particularly where that is not available or is low paid.

• High take up of parental leave by Swedish fathers is linked to more contact with children after separation (Duvander and Jans, 2009).

Professor O'Brien said: «The Government should offer «use - it - or - lose - it» parental leave to fathers, so laying the foundations for a second gender revolution, whereby men take up caring roles more in the home.»

• High take up of parental leave by Swedish fathers is linked to working shorter hours when returning to work (Duvander & Jans, 2009).

Fathers are offered 2 weeks at 90 % pay for paternity leave, and they can take up to 13 weeks of unpaid parental leave (which is available to the mother as well).

There is no paternity leave, but fathers can take up to 156 weeks of parental leave (the first 78 weeks is partially paid, the remainder is unpaid).

• High take up of parental leave by Swedish fathers is linked to lower rates of separation / divorce, as is more equitable sharing by a couple of earning and caring roles.

«I wanted to look at whether, in the unfortunate event of maternal death, a father could take over the maternity leave and benefits so that as sole surviving parent he had the same parental rights as new mothers and more importantly could provide the same level of child care.»

Fathers» take - up of paternity and parental leave enables mothers to take shorter maternity leave: this is helpful to employers

Next, take - up by dads was actively encouraged: a key strategy was the «daddy month» — a reserved month of well - paid parental leave that was lost to the family if the father did not take it.

New fathers, by contrast, get one month (unpaid) parental leave; and just two weeks» (very low paid) paternity leave, which most, as their family's breadwinners at this time, can not afford to take.

«Fathers are also entitled to 37 weeks of parental leave, but many still don't take advantage of this benefit,» says BabyCenter associate editor Ann Elisabeth Samson.

Employers can also take steps to help fathers address conflict, such as forming employee networks for fathers, promoting training, offering flexible work arrangements and providing gender - neutral parental leave.

New fathers will be able to take up to 12 months of parental leave, Nick Clegg has announced - but affordability constraints could prevent 95 % of them from doing so.

Other than two weeks of paternity leave, the parental leave reforms due to come into practice in 2015 only allow for fathers to take parental leave if transferred from the mother.

Plans to introduce more flexibility to maternity and parental leave will also be introduced, with fathers given the opportunity to take more time off.

Despite an apparent reluctance to take parental leave, fathers in academia increasingly participate in day - to - day parenting.

Maternity leave, parental or family leave, is the time a mother (or father) takes off from work for the birth or adoption of a child.

Overturning the tribunal's decision, the EAT held that a father taking shared parental leave is not comparable with a woman on maternity leave.

Deputy PM Nick Clegg has announced new proposals on flexible parental leave which could see fathers taking over childcare after six weeks.

Accordingly, the 1 % figure is not the percentage of new fathers who have taken up shared parental leave, it is the percentage of all men whether or not they are eligible for the leave or even have children.

In provinces where the statutory parental leave does not have to be shared, parents may be able to divide their employment insurance benefits over a longer period, opening the door for more fathers to take paid leaves in these jurisdictions.

However, fathers who work in provincially regulated workplaces will have to wait to take advantage of the EI Parental Sharing Benefit until employment and labour standards legislation is amended by their respective province or territory to include paternity leave.

The low proportion of fathers taking leave is a focus in the preamble to the new Parental Leave Directive 2010 / I8 leave is a focus in the preamble to the new Parental Leave Directive 2010 / I8 Leave Directive 2010 / I8 / EU.

Three quarters (75 %) of men who are already fathers said that if shared parental leave had been an option when they first became a parent, they would have taken that option.

Nonetheless, the extent to which practices have caught up with societal expectations of more equal parenting is contested, and research suggests that fathers still generally work longer hours than mothers, are less likely to take up parental leave, and spend less time than mothers with their children (Devreux, 2007; Doucet, 2013; Hook & Wolfe, 2012; McMunn, Martin, Kelly & Sacker, 2015).

A study by Working Families, found that of the 48 % of fathers who would not take up shared parental leave, a third said it was because they couldn't afford to.

It has been suggested13 that some fathers who may wish to take (longer) parental leave must reconcile their desire to be both good providers and involved fathers with workplace cultures that do not support paternal leave - taking.