Submitted on Thursday 3rd December 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 9th December 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make paternity leave 1 month
Dads want more time with their children, the UK has fallen behind in parental leave in this area, offering only 2 weeks. This is the first step in making parental leave equal in the UK. By making paternity leave for dads a minimum of 1 month we will be able to spend more time with our children
Although this is not the final outcome we want to achieve, it is a step on the road to empowering parents to have the opportunity for equal parental leave.
France has already implemented this as law and Spain offers 12 weeks currently moving to 16 weeks, so why are we so far behind? It's time to take the first step - the UK needs to make paternity leave 4 weeks.
If we get this, we double the amount of time we spend with our little ones at one of the most important times in their development.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We think these petitions are very similar:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/317734
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/332210
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