article_snippet.sent: Labour would introduce a new legal right to
article_snippet.sent: ‘granny leave’ to allow working grandparents to take time off to help care for working grandparents grandchildren.
article_snippet.sent: Deputy leader Harriet Harman, in an interview with the Daily Mail, said grandparents would be allowed to take up to four unpaid weeks off per year in order to help with childcare.
article_snippet.sent: Deputy leader Harriet Harman said grandparents would be allowed to take up to four unpaid weeks off per year in order to help with childcare .
article_snippet.sent: some business leaders, who will have to bear the costs of absences are already having to implement a new system of shared parental leave, which allows mothers and fathers to swap some business leaders, who will have to bear the costs of absences time off after a new child.
article_snippet.sent: ‘granny leave’, since it would be likely to keep more older women in the workplace – and also enable more older women children have a better work-life balance.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Harman said Miss Harman envisaged many grandparents using the new legal right to take time off over school summer holidays, when parents otherwise have to pay for expensive childcare.
article_snippet.sent: Instead of having to choose between retiring early and giving up work, or not being part of the daily care for their grandchildren, we’re saying let’s look at the leave arrangements to recognise what the pattern of family life.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Miss Harman says a Labour government would legislate to allow grandparents as well as parents, or those with legal responsibility, to access the leave .
article_snippet.sent: Currently, parents can claim 18 weeks unpaid parental leave - of up to four weeks in any given year - per child up to parents fifth birthday, soon to be extended to parents eighteenth birthday.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Miss Harman says a Labour government would legislate to allow grandparents as well as parents, or those with legal responsibility, to access the leave.
article_snippet.sent: So this policy is also a win for employers as this policy helps both parents and grandparents stay in work.
article_snippet.sent: ’s manifesto will include doubling paid paternity leave from two to four weeks, and increasing the amount paid from just under £140 a week to £260 a week.