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The Independent View: Lessons for Clegg – we need to be more innovative on maternity and paternity pay

By Spencer Thompson | Tue 29th April 2014 - 11:14 am

Last week, Nick Clegg gave a speech at the launch of the Cityfathers, a network of working dads based in the Square Mile and Canary Wharf. In it, he focused in particular on changes to parental leave coming into force next year, which will allow couples to transfer a portion of their maternity leave entitlement to fathers after two weeks. While the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has argued that we should go further, creating a ‘use it or lose it’ block of leave for fathers, in general the Coalition’s move has been regarded as at least a first step in the right direction for parental leave policy.

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Posted in The Independent View | Tagged ippr, maternity and paternity pay and nick clegg | 8 Comments

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