Parental Leave gripes

[mears]

The Trust I work for has just launched some employee friendly policies, one being parental leave. As you know you can claim 13 weeks parental leave from birth to the age of 14 yrs for each child now. This leave will be phased in with 4 of the weeks being paid leave.
However, colleagues who do not have children think it is totally out of order.
One colleague said she is being penalised by not having children and is really angry about it.
Is she right? Is she disadvantaged?

Strange, I would have thought of all people, midwives would be sympathetic to parents' needs...

I suppose if you need to give three weeks' notice then this can't really be used to cover sickness- I thought that was what it was for, not just "together time" but "my kid needs me" time. I'll be keeping an eye on this; five of the seven staff in my dept have kids under fourteen, in fact we have 10 kids between us, so that could mean a serious decrease in productivity if we all took what we are entitled to!

The sickness of a child would be covered by carers leave/compassionate leave. The info about parental leave is on the Trust intranet Tissy under human resources - new policies.

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