Sentences with phrase «taking parental leave in»

If we can offer and accept men working flexibly and taking parental leave in equal numbers to women, we will also be supporting women who want to do the same.

Plus, men and women took parental leave in the same proportions.

Not exact matches

, 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.

On Tuesday, Netflix announced a new parental leave policy that allows parents to «take off as much time as they want» in the year after their child's birth or adoption.

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

Today is my first day back in the office after taking parental leave.

Under the Liberal plan, parents would have a year and a half to take unpaid parental leave but they wouldn't see an overall increase in any benefits from employment insurance.

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.

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.

Mums and dads on flexible parental leave will be able to take the leave in turns or together, provided they take no more than 52 weeks combined in total.

• 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).

Nick Clegg's proposal to equalise payments for new dads and mums who take parenting leave is a welcome sign that the shared parental leave arrangements coming on stream in April 2015 could be a game - changer.

From 2015 you will be able to take up to 50 weeks» parental leave to look after your new baby, in its first year.

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.»

In the United States we have horrible parental leave policies and some improved protections for pumping moms, not all moms can take time off during the work day to pump or pump enough breast milk to feed their babies, while they are at work.

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.

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 leavIn 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 leavin favour of proposals to increase greater flexibility between parents for taking parental leave.

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.»

It follows an announcement last year in which the government said that from April 2015 parents will have a fully flexible choice over how they split their 52 week parental leave entitlement - other than the first fortnight, which the mother must take.

Researchers in countries where paid paternity and parental leave are readily available have found that there is a great benefit to having men take more time off when their children are born in order to develop their parenting skills and be better prepared to accept the responsibility that facilitates shared parenting.

The policy is still relatively new, and so has yet to take a firm foothold in many workplaces yet alone families, but with modern dads wanting to be more involved than ever, we wanted to find out the specific reasons why more shared parental leave pay wouldn't necessarily mean more take - up, and why so few new parents were having those conversations about it in the first place.

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.»

NYC teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.

Instead, the centerpiece of the teachers union's interaction with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is paid parental leave, in which teachers would be guaranteed pay for a certain number of days each year if they have to take time off to care for children.

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.

Somewhat awkwardly, Griffiths» revelation came as he was in the middle of publicising a new government drive to encourage higher take - up of shared parental leave.

«You've just come on the radio to promote shared parental leave and you're in a job where the rules could be changed because you are the rule - makers, where you're not allowed to take shared parental leave?»

The government is not alone in looking for ways to help reconcile the challenges facing working families with young children, with the Liberal Democrats proposing 19 months of more generous parental leave (able to be taken by any parent) and the Conservative Party proposing flexible parental leave to help make Britain more family friendly.

Teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration on Monday for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.

But women avail themselves of those policies more often than men do because men fear they may not be regarded as serious, competitive scientists if they take parental leave, Mason writes in an e-mail.

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

Regarding taking parental leaves — and in this women are more strongly affected than men, although fortunately this is slowly changing — I think that the best time to have a baby is during your Ph.D., because even if you lose the project you were working on, you can still pick up another one and fix things at that point.

A Postdoctoral Scholar's use of Personal Time Off when taking FML as Parental Leave is addressed below in § B. 8.

If requested and taken immediately following a Pregnancy Disability Leave, a Postdoctoral Scholar eligible for FML under the FMLA / CFRA at the beginning of her Pregnancy Disability leave shall be granted the unused portion of FMLA / CFRA leave for Parental Leave purposes, up to a maximum of twelve (12) workweeks pursuant to statute in a calendar Leave, a Postdoctoral Scholar eligible for FML under the FMLA / CFRA at the beginning of her Pregnancy Disability leave shall be granted the unused portion of FMLA / CFRA leave for Parental Leave purposes, up to a maximum of twelve (12) workweeks pursuant to statute in a calendar leave shall be granted the unused portion of FMLA / CFRA leave for Parental Leave purposes, up to a maximum of twelve (12) workweeks pursuant to statute in a calendar leave for Parental Leave purposes, up to a maximum of twelve (12) workweeks pursuant to statute in a calendar Leave purposes, up to a maximum of twelve (12) workweeks pursuant to statute in a calendar year.

Liberals: Create a flexible parental benefits plan allowing parents to receive benefits in smaller blocks of time — for example, once every two weeks rather than once per month — and make it possible for parents to take a longer leave — up to 18 months when combined with maternity benefits, although at a lower benefit level; scrap the Universal Child Care Benefit for the wealthiest families, and instead introduce the Canada Child Benefit that will give the majority of families up to $ 2,500 more, tax - free, every year (typically for a family of four).

The Liberal party has also touted a flexible parental benefits plan allowing parents to receive benefits in smaller blocks of time — for example, once every two weeks rather than once per month — and make it possible for parents to take a longer leave — up to 18 months when combined with maternity benefits, although at a lower benefit level.

In Canada, your student loans are frozen as long as you're on maternity / parental leave, which lasts a year and can be taken by the mom or dad.

Those who aren't entitled include shareholders of a family business, the self - employed (unless you're in Quebec or have opted to pay into EI well in advance of your pregnancy), and those who haven't accumulated at least 600 working hours in the year before taking parental leave.

Elite members who want to take advantage of the offer are instructed to email their full name, birth date, Mileage Plan number and proof of parental leave to [email protected], and they will be registered in the program after their eligibility is verified.

Parental involvement should decrease relative to a child's age, which means that constant meddling in an adolescent's school assignments is age - inappropriate, and parents would do better leaving their older kids to take the initiative and learn the consequences of not getting things done on time or preparing adequately.

Take up of shared parental leave has been reported to be as low as 2 % nationally, and campaigners and backbench MPs have pressed the government to replace it with an extended period of paid paternity leave, which is common in Scandinavian countries.

Pregnant employees are entitled to pregnancy leave (18 weeks in Quebec, 17 weeks in Ontario and British Columbia and 15 in Alberta) followed by parental leave (52 weeks in Quebec; 35 weeks if pregnancy leave was taken, or 37 weeks if not in Ontario and British Columbia; 37 in Alberta) with the assurance of reinstatement in the same job, if it exists, or a comparable position.

Very few men take shared parental leave and Annelise Tracy - Philips discusses how employers can address potential stigma around male staff taking shared parental leave in an article for Employee Benefits.

Parental leave does exist in many law firms, and there are great strides in allowing women to take absences to care for children.

In this case the man may wish to take a longer parental leave (up to 37 weeks under the legislation) so his wife can return to work.

In addition to the employee's ESA rights, there may also be a human rights claim — as well as a wrongful dismissal claim — if the employee was fired or transferred because of taking a pregnancy or parental leave.