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Parental leave entitlements vary around the world.
Conditions that apply generally to employees, members or not, like paid leave entitlements, are a function of having unions strong enough to secure and maintain them as standard.
Once you start measuring a citizen's worth and standing by their financial muscle, women will be disadvantaged, with their pesky career breaks and maternity leave entitlements.
They will also have access to medical and life insurance, as well as maternity leave entitlements to encourage women to return to the game.
Even that, however, may be too much for influential groups such as AARP, the 37m-member lobby group for the elderly, and the unions, who have launched campaigns urging Mr Obama and members of Congress to leave entitlements alone.Peter Orszag, Mr Obama's first budget director, thinks that this is short-sighted.
In a briefing for reporters, White House officials said its plan to grant six weeks of paid leave to workers at federal agencies would be "an advance" on their future leave entitlements aimed specifically at new parents rather than an additional grant, which would be difficult to provide without legislation.
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It depends on the culture of the organisation: if there is an assumption that staff should not be taking all their leave entitlement because it would leave colleagues in the lurch, we will shy away from breaking that psychological contract.
Another 27%, about 45,000 each year will have their employer provided leave entitlement topped up to the current taxpayer-funded level of 18 weeks at the minimum wage, or about $11,500.
Rake believes part of the reason for the current backlash could be the changes to the maternity leave entitlement, which came into force last year, allowing new mothers up to a year off work.
But while it's true that allowing fathers to take over leave entitlement adds to choice, it's no choice at all if, as is the case for thousands of families, you can't afford either parent to be on a derisory rate of pay like £125 a week.
A key objective is to reduce the pay bill from 68% to 60% of running costs, which the document suggests could be achieved by cutting salaries, allowances, leave entitlement, sickness benefits and making staff work longer hours.
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