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Representatives of PLENT participate at a European Parliament roundtable. Photo courtesy of PLENT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The European Commission is currently considering a Directive on Work-Life Balance for Parents and Carers<\/a>, with the goal of allowing parents and other caregivers to better balance work and family lives and of encouraging more equitable sharing of caregiving between women and men.<\/p>\n

The directive would introduce 10 working days of paternity leave and 5 days of annual carers\u2019 leave in the European Union (EU), as well as strengthening parental leave provisions and extending the right to request\u00a0flexible working arrangements.<\/p>\n

Equimundo\u2019s Tim Shand, MenCare\u2019s global co-coordinator, presented<\/a> the MenCare Parental Leave Platform<\/a> at a European Parliament public hearing on the directive in February 2018, sharing the platform\u2019s key recommendations around policy solutions to recognize and redistribute care work and transform deeply rooted inequalities between men and women.<\/p>\n

Tim acknowledged that the provision of parental leave policies alone is not enough to reach equality in unpaid care work. To increase the uptake of men\u2019s leave and equal participation in care work, the following policies are also necessary: (1) non-transferable leave for all parents; (2) sufficient length of leave \u2013 a minimum of four months; and (3) adequate pay during employees\u2019 time away from work \u2013 70% to 100% of their regular salary or equivalent.<\/p>\n

Tim highlighted that leave policies offering paid, non-transferable leave for men and women help to advance gender equality, social justice, and the well-being of women, children, and men.<\/p>\n

\u201cMen\u2019s caregiving matters for everyone. As a father myself of a two-year-old son, I know just how important the involvement of a father can be in the lives of one\u2019s children,\u201d Tim said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tim\u2019s presentation to the European Parliament in February builds on work by the International Platform for Equal, Non-Transferable, and 100% Paid Parental Leave (PLENT<\/a>) around the EU Directive on Work-Life Balance for Parents and Carers.<\/p>\n

Thirteen members of PLENT, including MenCare partners, participated<\/a> at a public roundtable at the European Parliament in Brussels\u00a0on the directive in November 2017, advocating for equal, non-transferable, and fully paid parental leave.<\/p>\n

Organized by the European Parliament secretariat of Podemos, a Spanish political party, and the Confederal Group of the European United Left\/Nordic Green Left (the GUE\/NGL parliamentary group), the event was convened with members of the European Parliament’s\u00a0Committee on\u00a0Employment\u00a0and Social Affairs (EMPL) and Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM).<\/p>\n

Approximately 50 people attended, including Members of the\u00a0European Parliament (MEPs) and their support staff, representatives of civil society organizations, and the general public.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Parental leave] has to be for mothers and fathers, for men and women, to change their behavior and achieve gender equality,\u201d PLENT\u2019s Mar\u00eda Pazos Mor\u00e1n said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La Comisi\u00f3n Europea est\u00e1 estudiando actualmente una Directiva sobre el equilibrio entre la vida laboral y familiar para padres y cuidadores, con el objetivo de permitir que los padres y otros cuidadores equilibren mejor la vida laboral y familiar y de fomentar un reparto m\u00e1s equitativo de las tareas de cuidado entre mujeres y hombres. La Directiva introducir\u00eda 10 d\u00edas laborables de baja por paternidad y 5 d\u00edas de baja por maternidad. \u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":6316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[659,660,658,195,479,624,619],"class_list":["post-6315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-directive-on-work-life-balance","tag-eu","tag-european-parliament","tag-parental-leave","tag-parental-leave-platform","tag-plent","tag-tim-shand","countries-global","initiative-the-case-for-parental-leave"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMenCare partners advocate for equal, non-transferable, and fully paid parental leave in the European Union | MenCare<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As the European Commission considers a new "Directive on Work-Life Balance," 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