Birth leave, promised by Emmanuel Macron and called to replace the current little-used parental leave, will come into force in 2025 and its remuneration will take the form of a daily allowance, the Elyse indicated on Monday.
What law? What timetable?
This new leave involves major developments which require work and consultations, and this must pass, to be adopted, by the social security financing bill, it was stressed. The goal is to pass it into the next social security financing project (PLFSS) next fall for a comes into force in 2025we added.
Why replace parental leave?
Announced on January 16 by the Head of State during a press conference, birth leave must replace current parental leavecreated in 1977 and which struggles to convince particularly because of its low pay (429 euros per month). The current system allows parents, at the end of their maternity or paternity leave, to suspend their professional activity until the child is two years old – three years if the parents share the leave.
How long is a leave of absence?
Birth leave, the terms of which will be the subject of discussions with the social partners, will be a coupling between existing leave, maternity (16 weeks) and paternity (28 days)a complement which owes their allow them to stay a total of six months with their childaccording to Elyse.
At the same time or each in turn?
The question of whether this leave can be taken at the same time by both parents or successively has not yet been decided, the same source said.
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