Posted by admin on Saturday, January 17, 2009 – 5:39 pm
Interesting article in today’s Guardian (Saturday 17th January 2009) about the fear that taking paternity leave may lead to unemployment.
While all men are entitled to paternity leave, taking it can often damage their careers. Elin Darby fears her partner could lose his job after taking time out to care for their baby.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jan/17/paternity-rights
Posted by admin on Monday, October 20, 2008 – 2:37 pm
Plans to increase parents’ rights to ask for flexible working hours are to be “reconsidered,” according to a Government spokesperson.
Plans to extend paid maternity and paternity leave are also under threat as the new Business Secretary Lord Mandelson is reconsidering all new regulations in the light of the economic downturn.
The flexible working scheme was due to be extended to 4.5m parents of children up to the age of 16 from next April.
At the moment the right to ask for flexible working is limited to parents whose children are under six or disabled.
The extension was announced earlier this year following the recommendations of an independent review.
Posted by admin on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 – 8:12 pm
This is the press release from the Early Years Commission released on September 8th 2008
Too many parents who wish to nurture their children at home
for the first few years are being forced back to work by
financial pressures when their children are babies, according to
a report published today by a think-tank chaired by the former
Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith.
Read More »
Posted by admin on Thursday, July 24, 2008 – 9:54 am
Men will soon be given the right to ask for more leave to look after their children. About time too, says Virginia Ironside
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-truth-about-daddy-day-care-875705.html
Posted by admin on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 – 9:15 pm
Nicola Brewer, chief executive of Equality and Human Rights Commission, has called for fathers to have the right to more paid paternity leave to end the present “unequal sharing of caring” that is penalising women in the workplace and marginalising the role of fathers. Read More »
Posted by admin on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 – 5:10 pm
Melbourne, Australia: One of the main arguments in favour of paternity leave is that new fathers who have time off work will spend more quality time with their newborn children.
But research in Australia has found that fathers spend the same amount of time with their babies, regardless of the amount of paternity leave they take. Read More »
Posted by admin on Monday, June 30, 2008 – 7:48 pm
Fathers in Quebec, Canada, are spending more time with their newborn children thanks to a new, generous paternity leave programme.
The success of the Quebec programme means that over half of eligible fathers took paternity leave in 2006, compared with just one in ten fathers in the rest of Canada. Read More »
Posted by admin on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 – 1:32 pm
According to the Daily Telegraph, thousands of primary pupils in Scotland were prevented from making Father’s Day cards at school this year for fear, it says, of embarrassing classmates who live with single mothers and lesbians. Read More »
Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 – 1:36 pm
Over the next few days we will be updating the HomeDad UK website, giving it a new, fresh look. The website is now based on a content management system (WordPress) which will be much easier to maintain and add new content.
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