Benefits Of Paternity Leave

Throughout the world in many countries maternity leave is the norm, where paternity leave has much shorter duration (for one week or by using vacation day leave), and in some countries paternity leave is offered fully paid. In many countries parental leave is designed for both parents and has employee protected leave of absence where both parents’ jobs are secured so they can go back to work in a few weeks or months later after their newborn child and get extra pay or get paid the same amount of money that their employers pay for their salary. According to a USA Today in an article, named 69% OF AMERICANS SAY DADS NEED PAID PATERNITY LEAVE, a study published in March 23, 2017 by Ashley May said that, “A Pew survey of U.S. adults published Thursday

10, countries that have paid paternity leave are: Australia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Portugal, Italy, Poland, etc. Some countries also provide varieties of benefits such as: childcare benefits, child raising allowances and different options of how both parents would like to get paid on parental leave and paternity leave. In some countries, paternity leave gets paid through parental leave, in Poland both parents can have leave at the same time and can work as part time worker and get paid with the parameters adjusted accordingly. Some example of the countries that grant paid paternity leave are the following: in Australia the fathers are getting same pay as their family leave, in Chile for five working days fathers are getting 100% of net earnings, in Spain 100% of earnings up to a ceiling of EUR 3,642 per month for 15 calendar days, etc. Some example from other countries that are getting paid paternity leave including the Statutory paternity leave under the OECD database on pg 17, and according to an article from the Business Insider HERE’S HOW MUCH PAID LEAVE NEW MOTHERS AND FATHERS GET IN 11 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES published on September 7th, 2017 by Matt Turner are listed in the