Even the new working father will be able to be absent from the workplace and stay at home for at least three continuous days to be with your baby: the Labor commission of the Chamber has finalized the text that unifies various bills and paves the way for mandatory paternity leave.
The text empowers the government to issue, within ninety days of the date the law comes into force, a legislative decree aimed at introducing mandatory paternity leave into the legal system, to be granted to working fathers within five months of the birth of the child . These are the principles which the government must adhere to: a) acknowledgment to the working father of the obligation to abstain from work for a certain period of continuous days, not less than three days, within five months of the birth of the child; b) identification of the number of continuous days for which the working father is required to abstain also in coordination with the legislative provisions on the protection and support of maternity and paternity c) provision of prior notification to the employer, to be made in writing, at least fifteen days before the starting date of the period of abstention from work, by the parent worker who makes use of the compulsory leave; d) position paid by the social security system of belonging of the indemnity foreseen for the period of compulsory leave of the father worker; e) application of the legislative provisions on maternity and paternity support for the possible replacement of workers absent from work during the period of compulsory abstention.
Deadline for tabling amendments the unified text adopted as the basic text was fixed at 11 am next Tuesday, 13 March.
