Sentences with phrase «flexible parental system»

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This proposed cutting maternity leave to 18 weeks and creating a new system of flexible parental leave — 4 weeks reserved for mothers, 4 weeks reserved for fathers (available directly to eligible fathers, not «given» by the mother) and 30 weeks available to the mother or father (or both, if both were eligible).

the decision to extend the existing system of transferable maternity leave, rather than introduce a system of flexible parental leave and pay in which mothers and fathers each have their own eligibility, and

Under the new system, employed mothers will still be entitled to 52 weeks of maternity leave, but will now be able to opt to end the maternity leave after two weeks, and transfer onto flexible parental leave — which can be taken by either parent.

The details of this new system are not yet fixed; the Government will consult on them during 2014, but it has already confirmed that parents will be required to provide a self - certified notice of their leave entitlement to their employers, giving a minimum of eight weeks» notice of intention to take flexible parental leave.

They will be able to opt into the flexible parental leave system at any point after the initial two - week post-birth recovery period.

Sweden for example has a flexible parental leave system.

By October 2015, a new system of maternity allowance should be in place - this «flexible parental leave» will give both mothers and fathers the same state support during the first year of their child's life.