{"id":1675,"date":"2014-07-02T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:30","slug":"paternity-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/07\/02\/paternity-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Paternity Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-27838255\">\u00a0Do Fathers Want Shared Paternity Leave? <\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Interesting story this week from the BBC that fewer than 1 in 50 fathers are taking the new extra paternity leave.<\/p>\n<p>On this topic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/paternity-pay-leave\/overview\">The UK government\u00a0 website<\/a> has official rules on the procedure and allowances.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/284559\/BIS_employment_regulation_Part_B_V3.pdf\">Department for Business and Skills<\/a> also has some interesting research on employer perceptions of maternity and maternity leave from March 2014 .<\/li>\n<li>Other materials can be located by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications?keywords=paternity+&amp;publication_filter_option=all&amp;topics%5B%5D=all&amp;departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;official_document_status=all&amp;world_locations%5B%5D=all&amp;from_date=&amp;to_date=\">searching the site more generally<\/a>.\u00a0 They have just offered some useful officia<a href=\"https:\/\/insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk\/2014\/06\/13\/how-gov-uk-site-search-works\/\">l guidance on how to do this effectively<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-l-m.com\/Why-ILM\/Research-reports\/shared-parental-leave\">Institute for Leadership and Management <\/a>has some reports on work place culture acting as a barrier to taking shared leave.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier materials from surveys of women can be found on the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.natcen.ac.uk\/our-research\/research\/maternity-and-paternity-rights-and-women-returners-survey\/%20\"> NatCent for Social<\/a> Research.<\/li>\n<li>Also worth searching is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworkfoundation.com\/blog\/428\/New-Forms-of-Fathering\">Work Foundation website<\/a> which has blog postings and reports covering work and work culture<\/li>\n<li>From a different perspective \u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatherhoodinstitute.org\/2014\/fi-research-summary-paternity-leave\/\">Fatherhood Institute<\/a> has lists of resources (some online) which reference the need for increased paternity leave and its positive benefits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Do Fathers Want Shared Paternity Leave? \u00a0Interesting story this week from the BBC that fewer than 1 in 50 fathers are taking the new extra paternity leave. On this topic: The UK government\u00a0 website has official rules on the procedure and allowances. Department for Business and Skills also has some interesting research on employer perceptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,15,9],"tags":[65,166,164,165,243],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-management","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-labour-market","tag-leave","tag-maternity","tag-paternity","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}