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Definition of parental leave

Leave granted to either parent in order to care for a child. 

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  • Step 5: Carefully measure progress

    … gender-equality engagement in the company. The uptake of parental leave by fathers is not primarily the result of availability … role models to encourage other future fathers to take up parental leave. In AON (Ireland) men are encouraged to share …

    Topics
    • Digital agenda
    • Employment
  • Parenthood measure – National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (FR)

    … for both mothers and fathers, before and after their parental leave. The objective is to support employees, improve work-life balance, and encourage fathers to take parental leave (which remains under-used in France). The …

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    France
    Topics
    • Education
    • Employment
    • Research
  • EIGE presents the results of the report on reconciliation of work, private and family life

    … at EU level concerning maternity, paternity and parental leave, institutional care arrangements for children and … and the dependent elderly and to the allocation of parental leave between women and men. ” EIGE’s Senior …

    Date & time
    20 Oct 2011, 9:15 EEST - 21 Oct 2011, 15:00 EEST Europe/Athens
  • Reconciliation of professional activity and personal/family life (PT)

    … life. The initiative exempts professors who have taken parental leave (at least 100 days) from teaching duties, with the … as well as encouraging parents (women and men) to take parental leave. In 2018, within the scope of the EU-funded …

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    Portugal
    Topics
    • Education
    • Employment
    • Research
  • Work–Life Balance innovation at Deutsche Telekom AG

    … into its rules of governance the 2012 Family Care Leave Act ( Familienpflegezeitgesetz , FPfZG), and the first … adult relative or small child. In 2015, Germany introduced Parental Allowance Plus, providing options for flexible leave … either parent returns to work part-time during a period of parental leave; of if both parents return simultaneously and …

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    Germany
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    • Employment
  • ‘Career Restart’ – Masaryk University Grant Agency, Brno (CZ)

    … researchers returning after a career break (e.g. after parental leave) and assist their reintegration into research teams. … post-doctoral academics in Czechia, especially due to long parental leave and a lack of affordable childcare for …

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    Czechia
    Topics
    • Education
    • Employment
    • Research
  • Step 4: Design a solid implementation plan

    … about equality in the workplace and promote family leave to support gender-equal participation in working life. … This pilot targeted  women managers who were about to take parental leave, were currently on parental leave, or had just returned from parental leave. As …

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  • Work-life balance for men and women remains unequal

    … discouraging reproduction. The 1996 EU Directive on Parental Leave is a reconciliation policy that has been established in … from work granted to a father to care for an infant. Parental leave is defined as an individual right to leave for …

    Topics
    • Employment
  • Measures for a family-friendly firm

    … and a child-related time bonus is given for parents for leave for the first school day. Employees can take up to 30 days (instead of 10 days) unpaid leave each year. In some circumstances employees can work … Taking account of school holidays and the partner’s annual leave when planning employees’ annual leave; Reconciliation …

    Country
    Slovenia
    Topics
    • Employment
  • Early childhood, when everything begins

    … situation in the European Union. First, let me start with parental leave. This is a right that is still much more likely to be … only about 10 % of fathers in the EU use their right for parental leave. Take up varies greatly across the EU, with 44 …

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    • Employment
    • Youth
  • How to attract women to the workplace and keep them there?

    … organised to ensure employees of either gender who are on parental leave can stay in the company, and to make their return to … in payment. According to Austrian legislation, parental leave is between two months and two years, and can …

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    Austria
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    • Digital agenda
    • Employment
  • Julie Hamáčková award – University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT) (CZ)

    … researchers returning after a career break (e.g. after parental leave) and assist their reintegration into research teams. … post-doctoral academics in Czechia, especially due to long parental leave and a lack of affordable childcare for …

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    Czechia
    Topics
    • Education
    • Employment
    • Research
  • Reconciliation of Work and Family Life as a Condition of Equal Participation in the Labour Market: Main findings

    … at EU level concerning maternity, paternity and parental leave. They further presents the latest available sex disaggregated data for parental leave, for the time spent in different activities, …

    Topics
    • Economic and financial affairs
    • Employment
  • Equality and diversity: Netlight's cornerstone and strategic objective

    … children including providing compensation for periods of parental leave, reduced working hours following parental leave and children’s playrooms in all of its …

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    Finland
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    • Digital agenda
    • Employment
  • Tackling the gender pay gap: not without a better work-life balance

    … work-life balance for working parents and carers, such as parental and carer’s leave and flexible working arrangements. Further information …

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    • Employment
  • The differing impacts of work-life balance on women and men during the pandemic

    … My husband’s company did not offer him generous paternity leave, and my company did not offer me flexibility in my … do this, governments need to earmark generous amounts of parental leave for all fathers. We can already look to some … states for good practices, such as “Use it or lose it” parental leave. In Sweden, the government offers an extra 90 …

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    • Health
  • 10. Conclusions

    … and services to families, job protection provided by leave policies, public infrastructure and the overall … example, there should not be a care gap between the end of parental-leave provision and publicly subsidised high-quality … the gender inequalities that are caused and reproduced by parental-leave policy rules. While the parental leave …

  • Gender pay gap and policies to improve work-life balance

    … on Work-Life Balance for Parents and Carers, such as parental and carer’s leave and flexible working arrangements. Work-life balance …

    Topics
    • Employment
  • An ambitious future for Europe's women after COVID-19: mental load, gender equality in teleworking and unpaid care work after the pandemic

    … from day 1, governments should earmark healthy amounts of parental leave for all fathers. In a number of EU Member States, this … all EU countries must now implement. Let’s not forget that parental leave should also be a right for those working in …

    Topics
    • Employment
    • Health
  • EU policies on work-life balance

    … with caring responsibilities have the right to suitable leave, flexible working arrangements and access to care …

    Topics
    • Digital agenda
    • Employment

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