With the liberalization of the "three-child" policy, many places began to explore new ways to upgrade and expand parental leave. Previously, Sichuan, Guizhou and Jiangxi provinces all issued "parental leave" decisions. According to the revised local population and family planning regulations, couples with children under 3 years old enjoy a total of 10 days of parental leave every year.
Recently, Hainan has put forward a new path on this basis. According to the Announcement on Soliciting Opinions on the Regulations on Population and Family Planning in Hainan Province (Revised Draft) issued by the Department of Justice of Hainan Province, "During the period of raising children aged 0-3, the employer is encouraged to give both husband and wife 10 days * * * parental leave or 1 hour parental leave every day until the children reach the age of 3. If the breastfeeding time, breastfeeding leave and parental leave of female employees overlap, only one of them can be enjoyed. During the parental leave, the salary will be paid as usual and enjoy full attendance. "
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Compared with "both parents enjoy 10 days of parental leave", "either spouse gives one hour of parental leave every day" in Hainan Province provides another choice in terms of time freedom, and also gives more detailed consideration to how to implement parental leave more perfectly.
The differences in parenting concepts, parents' inability to take care of them for a long time, vaccination, going to the hospital and many other situations are not enough, which also makes parenting a number one problem for many families. The perfection of parental leave can obviously alleviate the pressure of families with children to a certain extent, and it can also be an incision to balance family responsibilities and social responsibilities, so that parents can have relatively free time to balance life and work.
But from the practical operation and feasibility, is parental leave facing the dilemma of "just looking beautiful"? How to define the starting and ending standard of the "one hour for either parent" holiday proposed by Hainan? Who will cover this hour's post? Will this increase the burden on enterprises? Is it too much for parents to go home and look after their children for an hour? Many question marks are waiting for better policies and clearer regulations to be straightened out.
It can be seen that in order to make the ideal of parental leave shine into reality, there are still many problems to be seen and solved by both employers and social supporting measures. Increasing parental leave is a big project, which has risen to the level of people's livelihood. In order to avoid it becoming a piece of welfare, we must make overall plans, make careful decisions and take detailed and long-term measures to ensure its implementation.
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It is worth noting that Hainan's formulation this time is the same as parental leave, and the object is "both husband and wife", which is equal to parental leave for men and women at the policy level. Parenting is not only a mother's job, but also allows dad to return to the family from the workplace and share the pressure of family parenting. This is also a very positive attempt to reduce the pressure on women to choose jobs and improve gender discrimination in the workplace.
Of course, the solution of social fertility problems and the gradual improvement of parental leave are only part of it. A series of problems, such as female fertility cost, workplace employment cost, employment support, social welfare and so on. Need to be included in the scope of overall thinking.
It may not be easy to make parental leave widely recognized and regulated by strict standards like maternity leave, but it is very important to promote such an interlocking social problem.