Work-life Balance Clegg unveils plan for couples to share maternity leave
Clegg unveils plan for couples to share maternity leave
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The Deputy Prime Minister will this morning outline plans to allow couples to share maternity leave.
The change in April allows fathers to take up any remaining unpaid leave if their partners go back to work early.
Nick Clegg will denounce the current arrangements as "Edwardian".
He will also say the government will consult on a "proper" system of shared parental leave to be introduced in 2015.
The government wants couples to be able to take leave in a number of chunks rather than a single block, or parents taking time off together rather than one after the other.
The change allowing men to use unpaid leave not used by their partners was originally proposed by the previous Labour government. It will come in later this year.
Read more at the BBC website.
