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Keyword: paternityleave

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  • The incredible, disappearing — incompetent — Team Biden

    10/18/2021 4:33:12 AM PDT · by Liz · 31 replies
    Nypost,com ^ | October 17, 2021 | Karol Markowicz
    As Americans took to social media to post pictures of bare shelves, we learned that Transportation Secy Pete Buttigieg has been on tax paid paternity leave since August. He got the job as a reward for dropping out of the presidential race and throwing his support to Joe Biden — and because he likes trains, having gotten engaged at a train station. When the country is having supply-chain problems, the transportation secretary’s skills and experience, let alone availability, become rather, uh, indispensable. The public didn’t even learn about Buttigieg’s break at the start, but only after transportation-related problems exploded around...
  • Could French men soon be forced to take paternity leave?

    01/13/2017 10:26:25 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 16 replies
    TheLocal.fr ^ | 13 January 2017 17:46 CET+01:00
    A think tank in France has urged the government to force dads to take paternity leave even if they don’t want to. It’s all in the name of equality in the workplace. The economic think-tank OFCE proposed the changes in a report as a solution to ongoing problem of inequality between men and women when it comes to careers. […] Forcing men to take their 11 days of paternity leave would reduce the impact on a woman’s career from taking a long maternity leave, the report said, as well as encouraging men to do more household and child-rearing work. …
  • Spain approves equal parental leave for fathers

    10/19/2016 10:36:03 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 4 replies
    TheLocal.es ^ | 19 Oct 2016 16:07 GMT+02:00 | Fiona Govan
    Fathers will now be allowed the same parental leave as new mothers, under measures agreed by Spain’s parliament. The Spanish congress has voted to extend paid paternity leave from 13 days to 16 weeks, equal to that awarded to women. Until now, fathers were entitled to just 13 consecutive days off work with the arrival of a new member of the family, be it through birth, fostering or adoption, plus two days to be present at the birth itself. …
  • UK: Fathers WILL get new six months paternity leave ("will help smash Britain's 'macho' culture")

    09/14/2009 9:52:43 PM PDT · by Stoat · 24 replies · 1,669+ views
    The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | September 15, 2009 | James Chapman
    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...