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UK: Fathers WILL get new six months paternity leave ("will help smash Britain's 'macho' culture")
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^
| September 15, 2009
| James Chapman
Posted on 09/14/2009 9:52:43 PM PDT by Stoat
New fathers are being given the right to take six months' paternity leave, despite concerns over its impact on firms in the recession.
Gordon Brown will tell union bosses that the plan will be implemented after Business Secretary Lord Mandelson put it on ice because of the economic crisis.
Around 400,000 men a year will qualify for the right to dramatically extended leave from April 2011.
At the moment, they can only take two weeks off, an offer taken up by 60 per cent of eligible men. By contrast, new mothers can take a year off.
As well as a sop to the unions, the move will be seen as naked electioneering.
Labour strategists believe a raft of extensions to parental leave implemented over the last decade have been hugely popular with young working parents.
Essentially, the reforms mean parents will be able to decide how to divide up a total of 12 months of parental leave between themselves.
A mother going back to work after six months off will be able to transfer the rest of her leave to her partner.
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Ministers say the move will help smash Britain's 'macho' culture of men working through their children's early lives.
The announcement will be seized on by critics as evidence that the Government is caving in to pressure from its union paymasters.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; england; gordonbrown; greatbritain; paternity; paternityleave; uk; unitedkingdom
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They will be paid the statutory rate of £123.06 a week up to the 39-week cut-off period for women, after which the leave will be unpaid.
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:52:45 PM PDT
by
Stoat
To: Stoat
and who exactly is going to pay for this?
The UK is reaching the bottom of the toilet bowl, swirling, swirling
2
posted on
09/14/2009 9:57:13 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: manc; Gabz; RogerFGay
There is particular concern over who will be responsible for policing the system. Government documents suggest new fathers will be allowed to sign themselves off for six months with no eligibility checks by the Government.
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:57:46 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat
UK: Fathers WILL get new six months paternity leave ("will help smash Britain's 'macho' culture economy")
To: Stoat
Ministers say the move will help smash Britain's 'macho' culture of men working through their children's early lives.Yep, don't want to have any un-feminized men left over there.
To: Stoat
I think soccer already “smashed” the macho culture in the UK. Only pansies left.
To: Stoat
Sounds like employment must be seriously down in the UK. They are finding ways to rotate employees into temp positions for up to six months.
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:02:49 PM PDT
by
R_Kangel
(`.`)
To: Stoat
One of the biggest differences between America and Great Britain is the role of government. In many ways, Europe is still in a feudalistic mindset in which the lord of the manor is responsible for protecting the serfs, and the serfs provide the means for maintaining the lord. Brits believe that the government exists to take care of them. Whatever the problem may be, they look to the government to provide the solution.
The Founding Fathers of the United States wanted to be emancipated from the tyranny of the plantation or the fief. They believed in minimum government and maximum freedom. People were responsible for taking care of themselves, not the government. They were to find solutions to their own problems. When did the people of the United States start wanting to return to serfdom and the nanny state? We fought a war to gain our freedom from such enslavement, and do we now wish to return to the chains of tyranny?
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:13:51 PM PDT
by
Nosterrex
To: GeronL
and who exactly is going to pay for this?The productive, overtaxed people of Great Britain.
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:17:03 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat
So basically everyone should look for a single mum and ask to be her baby daddy or lesbian partner. Pay her a flat fee and then get half the year off work.
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:19:08 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: Stoat
Is that a steel mill or something?
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:25:55 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: Stoat
Macho culture? um when was the last time we saw that?
To: Stoat
I hate to say this, but if my husband stayed home for 6 months after our babies, one of us would be dead right now!
Maybe this is an attempt at population control....one baby (and the husband home all day) and that would be the last child they’d ever have.
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:50:42 PM PDT
by
dianed
To: Walkingfeather
I wouldn’t worry overmuch about too much macho with the way UK has changed—they can’t even protect themselves in their own homes.<,p>vaudine
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:51:18 PM PDT
by
vaudine
To: Stoat
Man I have hated that kind of work.
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:53:54 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: Stoat
Englishmen macho? Bwaaaahaaaa....!
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:56:53 PM PDT
by
weston
(As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
To: Stoat
“Macho Culture”? Please. The Brits are closer to the French than anything “Macho” (Culturally that is).
To: Stoat
What kind of job can you leave for 6 months or a year? Certainly not a job where individual input is important.
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posted on
09/14/2009 11:00:09 PM PDT
by
Bhoy
(Joe Wilson said it all.)
To: Stoat
Yeah - One old guy still left working.
32 young guys out on (mandatory) leave, but with nothing being produced = no body buys the products.
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posted on
09/14/2009 11:08:16 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: GeronL
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posted on
09/14/2009 11:47:04 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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