Birth leave for partners

Tekst Redactie Onderwijsblad - 16 december 2019 - Minder dan een minuut om te lezen

Picture: Type tank

As of January 1, 2019, birth leave for partners has been extended via the Extra Birth Leave Act, appropriately abbreviated to 'cradle'. In addition to the day (s) that you, as a partner, are given anyway for the birth itself, you are entitled to an extra week of leave this year.

The leave is your working hours of one week. You decide how you plan this leave. The only requirement is that you do this within four weeks of the birth of your child. You can therefore opt for a consecutive leave of one week, but you can also take part each time for four weeks.

Supplementary maternity leave

Even more will change from 1 July 2020. You may then take additional maternity leave. This concerns a period of maximum five weeks of leave. However, there are the conditions that you must first have taken the 'normal' week of birth leave and that you must apply for your leave in whole weeks, unless you agree otherwise with your employer.

During these five weeks you will receive a benefit through the UWV of 70 percent of your daily wage (with a maximum of 70 percent of the maximum daily wage). Taking less than five weeks of leave is also allowed. You must take this leave within six months of the birth of your child.

* In secondary education, secondary vocational education and higher professional education this had already been arranged in the text of the collective labor agreement, but the collective labor agreement of primary education still deviates from this. Nevertheless, the PO council has indicated that it will follow this amendment of the law and also recommends this to the school boards.