[Graphic News] 1 in 3 employees taking parental depart are dads

In accordance with the Ministry of Employment and Labor, one in three employees who took parental depart within the first half of this yr have been fathers.

From January to June, 69,631 employees started receiving parental depart advantages, excluding civil servants and lecturers not enrolled in employment insurance coverage. This represents a 3.2 p.c improve from the identical interval final yr, which had 67,465 recipients.

By gender, 47,171 girls (67.7 p.c) took parental depart, a slight lower of 1.8 p.c from final yr. In the meantime, the variety of males taking parental depart surged to 22,460, marking a major 15.7 p.c improve from the earlier yr.

The proportion of males amongst first-time recipients reached 32.3 p.c within the first half of this yr, the best recorded to this point. This improve is essentially attributed to the “6+6 Parental Depart System,” which permits each mother and father to take depart throughout the first 18 months of their youngster’s start, receiving one hundred pc of their common wage for the primary six months.