PARIS — France’s president needs to increase paternity depart to 1 month — and require fathers to take break day with their newborns.
President Emmanuel Macron introduced the plan on Instagram earlier than visiting a child-care facility on Wednesday.
“When a child arrives on the earth, there isn’t a cause it needs to be solely the mother who takes care of it. It’s essential to have better equality in sharing obligations,” Macron stated, noting the significance of the “intimate” moments early in a baby’s life.
At present fathers or different companions in France can take as much as 14 days off work after the beginning of a kid. Macron’s authorities needs to increase that to 28 days, with every day allowances paid by the French state medical health insurance system — and to make it compulsory for at the least every week.
New French moms are entitled to at the least 16 weeks of depart for a primary baby with every day allowances from the state. From the third baby onward, they’re allowed 26 weeks. In all instances, they need to take at the least eight weeks.
A number of European international locations have extra in depth parental advantages than France, although compulsory maternity or paternity depart is uncommon.
Seeing males pushing strollers is a typical sight in Sweden, the place new dad and mom are entitled to 480 days of paid depart, and every mother or father has the unique proper to 90 of these days. Different European international locations have an analogous system the place companions can share parental depart.
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