Give new dads the same job rights as Mams, MP says

A labor MP has said that new and expected fathers should have the same protection from excesses.

Currently, mothers who are pregnant or are on maternity leave provide some legal protection from being fruitless – but the father does not do on paternity leave.

Speaking during a debate on the government’s employment rights bill, Lola McAewoy said that “lack of security” means that some father “cannot even take” that they are entitled to “” when it comes to paternity leave.

A government spokesman said that it is making a comprehensive review of the parents’ holiday, including making it. paternity leave And the days of unpaid parents leave a right, which employees qualify for the first day of a new job.

Speaking during a debate on the Employment Rights Bill – the greatest upgradation for the rights of the workplace in a generation was dubbed – McAewoy said that “the existing security leave dads taking paternity leave”, the families were left weak.

Currently, the only way to preserve the father from excess is to choose the option to take Shared parent holidayBut the analysis from the campaign group The Dad Shift suggests that last year was used in less than 2% of all births.

Preachers want the law to be replaced so that the father can be abandoned paternity, from the time the protection is abandoned until they are expecting a child, until the child becomes 18 months old.

Father whose jobs are closing, if any, a suitable alternative vacancy will be offered.

“My generation and younger people younger than me are most eager for more family time, but our primary concern has been received to pay bills,” McAewoy said.

Chris Stringer of Swanasi said that losing his job would help him and his wife a great help.

In August last year, he was made fruitless six weeks before his son Chester’s birth and since then he had not been able to get full -time employment.

Chris said that it destroyed the family’s feelings of financial security before birth, as well as his expectations to buy a house.

“He had gone life, like. Everything changed,” he said.

He said that it also severely damaged his mental health, which was worsened by being deprived of a new parents.

“It was very difficult, sometimes it was very dark and I had some quite scary thoughts,” he said.

“I passed through those ideas at three in the morning, holding my child, just crying.”

Although he has found part -time work in a shop, Chris said it would not be enough to fund childcare costs for him and his partner, returning to work early to support the family.

“If there was a safety trap, we would have made a big difference to keep us too for a while,” he said.

A woman, who wants to be anonymous, said that when she was pregnant for 36 weeks, her partner was made meaningless.

“I was awake at night, because I was afraid what was going to happen to my family,” he said.

Two weeks later, the couple lost their baby girl.

She said: “When we were in the hospital, she was responding to the email from the lawyers: ‘We still have a stilging.”

He said that his partner had to seek work at the same time.

“He did not have time to process what happened to us,” he said.

“Our whole life has been shaken.”

He has got a new job since then, but in several months he is still “in a very dark place”.

“My partner is now struggling with his fight while being in a new job, where very few people know what happened to him,” he said.

“I am asking for measures to protect men, protect father, protect women, protect mothers (and) to protect children’s lives.”

Dad Shift estimates that one of 60 new and expected fathers in the UK was made fruitless, forced to quit his job due to poor treatment in the year in March 2024 – about 3,700 people.

Dad Shift co-founder, George Gabriel, said that the stories she hear is often “absolutely intestinal-ravaged”.

He said that Britain’s statutory paternity leave is the lowest generous of two weeks and Labor has “given an opportunity to hold this right and the opportunity to prove for the party that they are in favor of working dads and families”.

But the pregnant again spoiled, a charity that supports the rights of pregnant women and new mothers, said that the current law is always expelled to mothers.

The analysis published last month by Charity estimates that 74,000 women in a year lose their jobs after getting pregnant or on maternity leave – up to one third since 2016.

The pregnant then screw founder Jolie Bryrily said that she has been “spoiled for a long time, not better”.

A spokesperson of the government said: “We are creating a right of paternity leave and unpaid parents as part of our employment rights bills, and to ensure that there is also a review of a broad statutical parents’ holiday to ensure that it provides best possible support to working families.”

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