Denmark losing the battle for earmarked parental leave to the EU.
How to see employment Troels Lund Poulsen (V), to retailers in the EU have concluded an agreement on maternity and parental leave.
Every parent should have the right to at least four months of maternity leave. Two of the months of ring-fenced, so they can not be passed on to, for example, the mother, if the father does not even take them.
– How to distribute parental leave, is not something that the EU should decide. It is the families themselves can best determine. Therefore, it is very regrettable that the EU adopt the earmarked leave for men.
– I am afraid that the earmarked maternity leave can have the opposite effect, because there may be families that completely fail to use his father’s leave, and so lost, and it means, therefore, that the child will get less time at home, writing Troels Lund Poulsen.
Employment Troels Lund Poulsen considers that the EU must determine how to allocate maternity leave between mother and father. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen
His generals and the minister for gender equality Eva Kjer Hansen, however, believes that the Danish families get many benefits home with the EU agreement.
– There is no doubt that it is very good for gender equality, the danger is taking more maternity leave.
I really hope that the fathers will take the good effects, of which there are about to be on maternity leave. They come much closer to the child and have a greater part in family life, she says.
Although Eva Kjer Hansen can mention many advantages of having the earmarked maternity leave, has Left not even struggled to get it introduced in Denmark.
the Government voted against the proposal in the EU because it believed it should be up to the families to decide themselves what suits them best. The wish that fathers took more leave of absence, but it had to be done voluntarily, explains Eva Kjer.
– We (Troels Lund and Eva Kjer, red.) agree that the best had been if it had happened voluntarily.
– We have not got our will, but so that you can get the best out of the situation.
Eva Kjer Hansen, will, together with the other parties in the Danish Parliament and the social partners discuss how the changes must be realised.
the Agreement in the EU is expected introduced within the next three years.
