Leave policies in Europe: current policies, future directions

Moss, Peter; Deven, Fred

doi:10.1108/ijssp-04-2019-0063

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“…As Peter Moss and Fred Deven (2015 , 139), the founders of the International Network of Leave Policies and Research, argue, "Experience shows that fathers, by and large, will only use such leave" when it is in the form of "'fathers' quotas' (well-paid, father-only leave entitlements)," whereas "other forms of leave (e.g., low or unpaid paternal entitlements or any family entitlements) are either not taken or taken predominantly by mothers. The direction to be taken, therefore, if gender equality and shared caring are priority goals is now quite clear" (see also Harrington et al 2014 ;Moss and Deven 2019 ). Parental benefi ts and the new parental sharing benefi t, with their relatively low wage replacement rate of 33 to 55 percent, are out of sync with this research.…”

Section: Connections Between Leave Policy Design and Gender Equalitymentioning

confidence: 76%

Reconceptualizing Parental Leave Benefits in COVID-19 Canada: From Employment Policy to Care and Social Protection Policy

Doucet

Mathieu

McKay

2020

Canadian Public Policy

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Bien que la pandémie causée par le coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) ait largement attiré l'attention, comme le réclamaient impérieusement les circonstances, sur la réévaluation des approches politiques à l'égard des soins aux enfants et des soins de longue durée aux aînés, les répercussions de la pandémie sur les politiques de congé parental et les prestations parentales relatives aux soins aux nourrissons et aux jeunes enfants ont suscité peu d'intérêt. Les auteures se penchent sur la révision de la conception et de la confi guration des politiques de congé parental basées sur l'emploi au Canada, tant pendant qu'après la COVID-19. En s'appuyant sur les connaissances théoriques relatives aux économies de soins, à l'économie politique féministe et à l'économie solidaire et la reproduction sociale, ainsi que sur les travaux de recherche sur les congés parentaux à l'échelle nationale et internationale, elles affi rment que le moment est venu de repenser les prestations de congé parental à titre non seulement de politique en matière d'emploi, mais de politique de soins et de protection sociale. Elles proposent, pour opérer ce virage, trois sujets d'étude qu'elles explorent : un système mixte de prestations parentales conjuguant des droits fondés sur l'emploi et sur la citoyenneté, l'établissement de liens entre la conception des politiques et l'égalité des sexes, et la nécessité de données intersectionnelles solides pour déterminer quelles familles canadiennes reçoivent des prestations parentales. Mots clés : Canada, COVID-19, égalité des sexes et égalité intersectionnelle, politique de congé parental, social, soins Although the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred critical and much-needed attention to rethinking policy approaches to child care and long-term elder care, little focus has been given to its implications for parental leave policies and parental benefi ts for the care of infants and young children. This article is about reconceptualizing and reconfi guring employment-based parental leave policies in Canada both during and after COVID-19. Informed by theoretical insights from the fi elds of care economies, feminist political economy, and care and social reproduction and by national and international parental leave research, we argue that it is time to reconceptualize parental leave benefi ts not only as employment policy but also as a care and social protection policy. To make this shift, we explore three topic areas: a mixed system of parental benefi ts that combine employment-based and citizenship-based entitlements, connections between policy design and gender equality, and the need for robust intersectional data to track which Canadian families are receiving parental benefi ts.

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Section: Connections Between Leave Policy Design and Gender Equalitymentioning

confidence: 76%

Reconceptualizing Parental Leave Benefits in COVID-19 Canada: From Employment Policy to Care and Social Protection Policy

Doucet

Mathieu

McKay

2020

Canadian Public Policy

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“…This type of leave may also be referred to as compassionate leave. This category of leave is approved for employees whose spouses die or give birth [40,41,38]. It may also be granted when an employee"s immediate family member dies.…”

Section: Maternity Leavementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It cannot be carried over into the subsequent year. The institution has the right to disallow any casual leave it is not satisfied with the reasons provided for the absence of the employee for which the casual leave is being requested for [40].…”

Section: Casual Leavementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The leave policy is intended to control the various forms of leave benefits that accrue to staff and are due them and to put in place processes and procedures that will be used in the granting and taking of such leaves [40,22]. The objectives of leave management in most public institutions are to put in place arrangements that would guarantee the setting up of appropriate measures in the management of leave in the workplace to meet planned and unplanned staff leave requirements such as resulting from personal/family issues, and temporary or permanent incapacitation.…”

Section: Vital Components Of Leave Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring Leave Management Practices and Relationship with Performance of Administrative Staff: Evidence from a Tertiary Institution in Ghana

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Obeng-Sarpong²,

Aflakpui³

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Effective leave management encompasses integrated processes that involve employees, supervisors and human resource managers. This study explored leave management practices and relationship with the performance of University administrators, using a Technical University as a case study. This became necessary due to the systemic challenges associated with the current leave management practices. The purpose of this research was to solicit the views of staff on the leave management practices and how it affects performance. Using Yamane (1967) sample determination formula, a total of 96 University administrators were conveniently selected from a population of 200 to participate in the study. A self-administered questionnaire was adopted as the primary instrument for data collection. The analysis of the results focused on the cause-effect relationship between leave management and staff performance using regression. The hypothesis that there is no linear relationship between the predictor and dependent variable was rejected. The study, therefore, concludes that there exists a linear relationship between the predictor (Leave system) and the dependent variable (Staff performance). The study further established that the leave application process at the University is more manual than electronic and also bureaucratic. It is also unevenly distributed over the year but rather heavily tilted towards the last two quarters of the year where majority of staff (86%) take their annual leave. It is, therefore, recommended that management institutes measures to enhance the efficiencies in the leave management practices by automating the processes to reduce bureaucracies, errors, and also ensure yearly even distribution of the leave.

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“…These matters have become even more urgent since the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a global impact on people's everyday care and work lives through repeated lockdowns, social distancing protocols, closures of childcare centers and schools, and workplace disruptions and reconfigurations. Prior to the pandemic, it was already clear that because of the rise of gig economies and precarious employment, more and more parents around the globe were not meeting the entitlements and eligibility criteria needed to receive employment-based parental leave benefits (Dobrotić & Blum, 2019McKay, Mathieu, & Doucet, 2016;Moss & Deven, 2015, 2019. The pandemic has thus deepened and extended processes of rethinking social policy design that were already beginning throughout the Global North, and this includes questions about how to make parental leave policies more inclusive and responsive to rising employment precarity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socially Inclusive Parenting Leaves and Parental Benefit Entitlements: Rethinking Care and Work Binaries

Doucet

2021

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How can parental leave design be more socially inclusive? Should all parents be entitled to parental benefits or only those parents who are eligible based on a particular level of labour market participation? To think through questions of social inclusion in parental leave policy design, particularly issues related to entitlements to benefits, I make three arguments. First, aiming to extend Dobrotić and Blum’s work on entitlements to parental benefits, I argue that ‘mixed systems’ that include both citizenship‐based and employment‐based benefits are just and socially inclusive approaches to parental leaves and citizenship. Second, to build a robust conceptual scaffolding for a ‘mixed’ benefits approach, I argue that that we need to attend to the histories and relationalities of the concepts and conceptual narratives that implicitly or explicitly inform parental leave policies and scholarship. Third, and more broadly, I argue that a metanarrative of care and work binaries underpins most scholarship and public and policy discourses on care work and paid work and on social policies, including parental leave policies. In this article, I outline revisioned conceptual narratives of care and work relationalities, arguing that they can begin to chip away at this metanarrative and that this kind of un‐thinking and rethinking can help us to envi‐ sion parental leave beyond employment policy—as care and work policy. Specifically, I focus on conceptual narratives that combine (1) care and work intra‐connections, (2) ethics of care and justice, and (3) ‘social care,’ ‘caring with,’ transforma‐ tive social protection, and social citizenship. Methodologically and epistemologically, this article is guided by my reading of Margaret Somers’ genealogical and relational approach to concepts, conceptual narratives, and metanarratives, and it is written in a Global North socio‐economic context marked by the COVID‐19 pandemic and 21st century neoliberalism.

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Leave policies in Europe: current policies, future directions

Cited by 15 publications

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Reconceptualizing Parental Leave Benefits in COVID-19 Canada: From Employment Policy to Care and Social Protection Policy

Reconceptualizing Parental Leave Benefits in COVID-19 Canada: From Employment Policy to Care and Social Protection Policy

Exploring Leave Management Practices and Relationship with Performance of Administrative Staff: Evidence from a Tertiary Institution in Ghana

Socially Inclusive Parenting Leaves and Parental Benefit Entitlements: Rethinking Care and Work Binaries

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