Finland To Give Dads Same Parental Leave As Mums
Source: BBC News
Finland's new government has announced plans to give all parents the same parental leave, in a push to get fathers to spend more time with their children. Paid allowance will increase to a combined 14 months, which works out as 164 days per parent.
Neighbouring Sweden has Europe's most generous system of parental leave with 240 days each after a baby's birth. Finland says it wants to "promote wellbeing and gender equality". Health and social affairs minister Aino-Kaisa Pekonen told reporters that "a radical reform of family benefits" had begun, with the aim of strengthening the relationship of parents from the start.
Pushing fathers to take their leave: Under the current system in Finland, maternity leave is 4.2 months, while fathers are given 2.2 months until the child turns two. However, on average only one in four of them take what they are given. The current plans now talk only of parental leave.
Each parent would receive 6.6 months' leave (164 days under Finland's six-day-week benefit system) and pregnant women would get an additional month's allowance. Parents would be allowed to transfer 69 days of their quota. Single parents would be allowed to use both allowances...
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51384614
Sanna Marin, the Finnish Prime Minister said recently that her country still had some way to go to achieve gender equality. She also stated that too few fathers were spending time with their young children. Rest of Europe heading the same way...
- Fathers in Finland currently get 2.2 months of Parental Leave.
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