Election 2017 - Party Policies - Families/Labour and Employment - Parental Leave
27th May 17, 9:18am
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Parental Leave
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- Making the $220 per week Parental Tax Credit available to all families who don’t get paid parental leave. This ensures every baby born in New Zealand gets the same support and makes the system simpler.
- Extend sick leave to be a minimum of 10 days a year, so that parents and whanau have time to look after sick kids.
- Extend paid parental leave in line with the Families Commission recommendations of September 2007 to ensure parents are provided with a total of 13 months paid leave.
- Improve the annual leave and domestic leave entitlements available for people returning from parental leave.
- Establish a separate domestic leave entitlement to provide (over time) up to 10 days leave where employees have to care for dependents who are sick.
- Read more here and here.
- Extend Paid Parental Leave from 18 weeks to 26 weeks.
- The policy will be phased in over three years: 22 weeks from 2018 and 26 weeks in 2020.
- Read more here.
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- Progressively extend Paid Parental Leave to 22 weeks over two years, with an initial step of 2 weeks on 1 July 2018 followed by a further two weeks on 1 July 2019.
- Add flexibility to Paid Parental Leave, by allowing both parents to take some of the 22 weeks off at the same time so they can be at home with their baby together.
- Increased the parental tax credit from a maximum of $150 a week to $220 a week, and extended it from eight to 10 weeks.
- Read more here and here.
- Introduce paid paternal leave of two weeks rising to four weeks.
- Support increasing paid maternity leave to 26-weeks.
- Read more here.
- Extend paid parental leave to 13 months.
- Allow the current 14 weeks to be transferred to a partner.
- An additional 38 weeks would be available to either parent.
- A total of 56 weeks paid parental leave for families.
- Read more here.
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