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Paternity: Statutory leave and pay, plus one day's full pay.
Not only is it non-statutory – leaving it fighting for space in an already overcrowded curriculum – but explaining complex and potentially controversial concepts to young children can be a daunting prospect.
Just four days of statutory leave is enough for a nine-day holiday.
A woman on maternity leave will still be able to go into work for 10 days without ending her statutory leave and pay.
By combining annual leave days with bank holidays and weekends, it is possible to almost double your statutory leave and get 20 days off.
Only 55% of fathers take the full two weeks off work when their child is born and a third do not take any of their statutory leave.
Rob Debenham, show manager of The Holiday and Travel Show, crunched the dates of Bank Holidays to discover that just eight days of statutory leave in March and April is enough for a 16 day holiday.
The CBI, a business lobbying outfit, points out that statutory leave is already planned to rise to 28 working days by 2009, and says that an extra public holiday would cost up to £6 billion ($12.1 billion).
Leaked details from the "growth review", due to be announced in the budget, suggest a relaxation of maternity leave laws which currently allow women up to a year's statutory leave.
New mothers in Australia are also allowed a long break from their office or factory, but only if they are willing to forgo their income: the country's one-year statutory leave is unpaid.In this section PRICES AND WAGES OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS MATERNITY LEAVE COMMODITY PRICE INDEX Reprints.
In Australia, men can claim statutory leave and one of the country's biggest banks recently introduced 12 weeks paid leave for fathers or co-parents that can be taken any time in the first 12 months of the child's life.
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