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In sweden you get an instant 10 days leave after birth, and then about 400 days more to split as you want between the parents. You get about 80% of your salary
by waspight 5y ago
In sweden you get an instant 10 days leave after birth, and then about 400 days more to split as you want between the parents. You get about 80% of your salary during this time, up to some breakpoint.
- IshKebab 5y agoThat's the sensible way to do it.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoYes, but I doubt breakpoint is high enough to even cover your rent... That's at least the case in NZ - and if you are on tech salary you'll be loosing like 90% of your income.
- belorn 5y agoIn practice that mean that men get about 1 day for every 4 days women get, which is a bit low compared to other work in gender equality. If I remember right, in Denmark you can't split the days and so men has a much more equal parental leave compared to Sweden.
- kbelder 5y agoI think that means the wife takes the vast majority of leave in almost every case. That's fine, though, if that's the parent's choice. I think I like this policy.