Sentences with phrase «of taking parental leave»

When PLAP was first implemented as a three - year pilot project, LSUC believed it would encourage practitioners to join small firms or set up sole practices where they might otherwise be discouraged to do so because of the financial implications of taking parental leaves.

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Ohanian, who recently had a daughter with wife and tennis champion Serena Williams, took 16 weeks of parental leave before making the decision to leave his operating role at Reddit.

But I do worry about the message her pledge to take almost no time off sends about the value of maternity leave, and how it undermines recent efforts by US companies to offer and normalize the idea of longer parental leaves, for both moms and dads.

(Full disclosure: I have two small children, and after the birth of each I opted to take the full year of combined maternity and parental leave to which I, as a Canadian who made sufficient contributions to employment insurance, am entitled.

, 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.

So if you take 18 months of parental leave and hold off on daycare until 18 months, you'll save about $ 642.

Right now, eligible parents are entitled to up to 35 weeks of parental leave, on top of the 15 weeks of maternity leave new moms can take.

Let's do some number crunching: Say you want to take your 15 weeks of maternity leave and all 35 weeks of parental leave, and let's say that pre-baby, you earned more than $ 51,300.

To get a sense of these costs, look at the length and frequency of parental leaves employees have taken in the past.

Pinterest provides a unique take on the parental - leave policy by offering three paid months off, plus a month of part - time hours, as well as two counseling sessions to create a plan to reenter the workplace.

Canada may have a pretty generous policy towards maternity and parental leave — especially compared to the U.S. — but many women still encounter significant career setbacks or experience the so - called «motherhood penalty» when they take time off to have kids, and many employers still wrestle with how to accommodate the disruption of employees going on leave.

Employees at Netflix are now permitted to take up to one year of paid parental leave when they have children or adopt, the company announced

Along with the federal government's 2018 budget highlighting pay equity and expanded parental leave, many other events have taken place since the beginning of March, including those that marked International Women's Day and the latest session of the...

Mothers are still more likely to take the leave, she notes, as there «are still employers that are not supportive of male employees taking parental leave.»

Among the research into the potential drawbacks of only women taking a lengthy parental leave is a 2013 report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) that offer extended leave.

«John Horgan and the B.C. New Democrats demanded that the government do the right thing for families by putting an end to their cruel policy of taking away parental leave and other Employment Insurance benefits from disabled British Columbians,» said Mungall.

Flexible parental leave must be taken in a minimum of one - week blocks.

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.

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.

The purpose of parental leave is to allow parents to take time off, if needed, to look after their child.

Each parent can take a total of up to 13 weeks» parental leave for each child, up to their fifth birthday (or if you have a disabled child, 18 weeks each until their 18th birthday).

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.

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.

We're planning to take my husband's 3 months of unpaid parental leave to travel around Asia.

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.

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

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

A new report from the European Commission explores attitudes across the European Union towards the rights of men to take up parental leave.

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).

Thankfully, some of the new parental leave measures extend to everyone who needs to take time off to caregive, even to care for a seriously ill family member.

More than four - fifths of respondents (83 %) agreed with the proposal that mums and dads should be able to take their parental leave part - time, rather than only in full - time blocks.

• 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.

In the poll, conducted as a quick test of public opinion to feed into the Institute's submission to the Government's «Modern Workplaces» consultation, more than nine out of ten respondents (94 %) came out in favour of proposals to increase greater flexibility between parents for taking parental leave.

Take up of Shared Parental Leave has been incredibly low ever since the policy came into play.

You can take shared parental leave (SPL) at any time from the end of your paternity leave up to your little one's first birthday.

Margaret — why don't you take the all of that energy and enthusiasm you have and use it to advocate for real paid parental leave policies in the US?

«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.

«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.

Sweden It's increasingly common for dads to take half of the couple's allotted parental leave time (480 working days) to stay at home with a new baby.

Think about that for a second: Half of all U.S. babies are born into low - income families, the population segment least likely to be able to take parental leave of any type — paid or unpaid — after the birth of a baby.

Each parent must take two months of parental leave or those months are lost.

My sister returned to work after 4 months for each of her children, and her husband took the next several months off as a parental leave.

It is appalling to me that we are still in a situation where men feel that they can't take parental leave because it's frowned upon and not manly, and they are working longer and longer and longer hours and forced out of family life, at the same rate that women are being forced out of working life.»