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The UK (as Anglo as it gets ;-)) is 2 weeks: https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/overview https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/overview .. but up to 26 wee
by petercooper 14y ago
The UK (as Anglo as it gets ;-)) is 2 weeks: https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/overview https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/overview .. but up to 26 weeks if the mother goes back to work.
- cdavid 14y agoWith the small detail that you earn <= 136.78 pounds per week during this leave: https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/pay https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/pay. For women, it is the same after 6 weeks I believe. Paternity/Maternity leaves in UK are truely horrible compared to most continental countries.
- petercooper 14y agoTrue, but even as a British working parent, I think I'd vote to stick with it though. It's expensive to offer those benefits and Norway and France, say, are rocking 43.6% and 44.6% of GDP as tax revenues respectively versus our 39% and we already feel hard done by as it is ;-) (Now if we could cull the military to pay for more social benefits, fine, but that'll never happen..)