Quick survey about paternity leave

[tortoiseshell]

How much did your partner take, and was it
a) fully paid but not out of holiday allowance
b) Statutory pay (i.e. £100)
c) Holiday
d) Unpaid leave

I'll start....

ds - 3 1/2 days (2 full days, 3 half days), taken as holiday

dd - 5 days, taken as holiday

PG no. 3 - to be decided. Would be interested to know what other people did. Also, what sort of place your dp/dh works at (i.e. small business, self employed, large company, government etc.)

We've been unbelievably lucky on this front. DH had 2 weeks full pay with baby number one and has been offered the same for baby number 2 with a different company. I don't know how generous they are with female staff, . My old company certainly wasn't!

Hi Ja9 indeed I am! Early days thou'. Are you well? Might need to use your wee scone's name this time too!!

Day off on day of actual birth. Pay withheld accordingly.

Day off on day of actual birth. Pay withheld accordingly.

DH has had to book his paternity/annual leave for dd2's expected arrival way back, before I was even 20 weeks pregnant. Difficult, who knows when they are going to arrive? Anyway, we have done this from week 39 of my pregnancy:

1 week paternity full-pay
1 week paternity at statutory rate (about £110 a week)
2 weeks paid annual leave

Totalling: 4 consecutive weeks together. Have saved for the week at statutory pay so it won't be too much of a shocker. DH works for large, international airline in a predominantly male dominated industry so things like taking time off for the birth of a baby are still, even in 2006, tricky.

ds1 - one week

ds2 - five weeks. Very well planned and came early to oblige. 2 weeks full pay paternaty leave, 1 week holidays and two weeks the building was closed over xmas. From the 27th Nov to 5th Jan.

He works for Manchester Metropolitan unversity. get's about 35 days holiday a year plus two weeks at xmas and paid very well. So I'm not grumbling or going back to work.

Hubby took 2 weeks fully paid leave then 3 weeks of holiday. It was so great to have him home supporting dd and myself.

My dh has had every day off since ds was born 8 1/2 months ago! Although in fairness, this is because he is too ill to work, and takes a stint in the afternoon whilst I go into work, haven't really worked out the plan for when I go back full-time soon.

I really would be lost if I was here on my own; in some ways his illness is as much a blessing as a curse. Looking after him takes a lot of my time but equally I do have the ability to say "oh god, I'm knackered, it's your turn I'm off for an hour's kip" whenever I need to (does have to be need though as dh is very unwell).

DS - 1 month 'special leave' full pay (Canada).

For the next one he'll get 2 weeks pat leave on full pay folowed by 2 weeks annual leave.

DH hasn't taken it yet as I am due end of July with our first child, but his company (very large European Aero Engineering firm) only offers 2 wks at statutory, so may have to take holiday. Company is very male dominated, but apparently their maternity pay package is v good (work that one out )

My company (12 employees, not-for-profit) offers 2 weeks full pay.

congratulations, gomez

dh took 2/3 wks for both dc but imho the real question is how much the dhs contribute on an ongoing basis...

or dps...

One month, on full pay, no official paternty leave
The joys of acadaemia out of term time and a boss that doesn't come in much either...

When I had the children DH worked for Sony.

When I had DD - week fully paid paternity leave.

When I had DS he wasn't allowed to take paternity leave straight away as he had been off work for 2 weeks (very bad tonsilitis and allergic reaction to penicillin!! - I was driving him to hospital at 8 1/2 mths pg) until the day DS was born (he went to work at 7am and at 9 I phoned him to come home because my contractions were v. close together - he got home at 10 and I had the baby at 12.15!!!!).

He was allowed two days, and then had another three to take later on, if I remember correctly.

DP was very lucky and saved up lots and lots of hols. DS was born 8th Nov, he had from then off till just before xmas, when he went back for 5 days then had two weeks off again!!

he's a policeman and used paternity leave and holiday.

2 weeks - 1 full pay + 1 annual leave (taken when ds was 6 weeks) breaking it up really helped.

2 weeks paternity leave on full pay, he's worked for this big company for 5 years now and then also took 2 and a half weeks holiday on top.

If he had worked for them for less than 3 years then the first week would have been fully paid but the second week £100.

a) 2 weeks full pay. Works for large company.

With dd he was self-employed and took 2 weeks off, unpaid obviously.

With ds, I was in hospital for 2 weeks and MIL looked after dd while dh went into work. Then he had two weeks at home, and did about a week's worth of work at home during the fortnight. They paid him as normal for all of it. So I guess that is one week at full pay. But it meant he was there until I could drive again (cs).

If we have a next one he'll be taking 6 weeks off, or alternatively he can take all the kids into work with him for a couple of months .