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Paternity Leave

  • 27-05-2019 02:36PM
    #1
    Utter Consternation
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    Hi,

    My missus is due next month. I have applied for the two weeks paternity leave (three days paid, seven unpaid).

    There's an additional two weeks planned under new legislation in November of this year.

    Will i be entitled to take this also?


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  • #2
    jlm29
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭jlm29


    Utter Consternation wrote: »
    Hi,

    My missus is due next month. I have applied for the two weeks paternity leave (three days paid, seven unpaid).

    There's an additional two weeks planned under new legislation in November of this year.

    Will i be entitled to take this also?

    No, as far as I know it applies to babies born after November, but I stand to be corrected on that!


  • #3
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    jlm29 wrote: »
    No, as far as I know it applies to babies born after November, but I stand to be corrected on that!

    Thanks, i was thinking that myself initially. If the leave is guaranteed within the first year the baby is born, i wonder could it be applied retrospectively?

    Another future Dad at an antenatal class told me this would be the case. :D


  • #4
    jlm29
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭jlm29


    Utter Consternation wrote: »
    Thanks, i was thinking that myself initially. If the leave is guaranteed within the first year the baby is born, i wonder could it be applied retrospectively?

    Another future Dad at an antenatal class told me this would be the case. :D

    It depends on the wording of it, but I think they have said that it will only be given in the first year of babies born after November. I originally hoped to be able to avail of it myself, but apparently it was discussed and clarified on some radio or tv show (second hand information, a friend told me this), and it seems I won’t get it for my July baby either!


  • #5
    ShayK1
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    The wording is for babies born after 1st November.

    I'm on paternity leave at the moment. I don't qualify for paid parental leave.

    http://www.welfare.ie/en/pressoffice/Pages/PR230419.aspx

    Under the scheme, both parents will have access to two weeks each (non-transferrable) benefit for babies born from this November, which will be paid at the same rate as Maternity Benefit and Paternity Benefit - €245 per week. It is intended to incrementally increase this to up to seven weeks parental leave over the next three years in line with Government announcement for Budget 2019.


  • #6
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    Thanks lads. I thought it sounded too good to be true. :D


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