BBCA gaggle of cross-party MPs have said that the UK's statutory ancestral vacation system is “the worst” and “fundamental flaws”.
A report printed at the moment by the Women and Equality Committee states that the principles of paternity depart depart the previous gender stereotypes “.
It states that “daring” action is required, but any change warns that significant investment would be required.
A department of the trade and business spokesperson said that the government is doing a review to see how it can support the best working families.
In 2003 introduced, Statutory paternity leave The Britain allows most new father and other parents to work for two weeks.
This applies to all partners, regardless of the penis, after birth, surrogacy or after adopting a child.
Those characters receive £ 187.18 a week or 90% of their average income, which is less.
It acts as less than 50% of national living wages and the father is unfit for statutory paternity leave if they are self-employed or earn less than £ 123 a week.
The report said that it “is totally out with the price of dwelling” and suggests that the government should consider growing paternity pay to 90% or more and leaves paternity for six weeks in a phased approach.
It advises that both aspects should be done during this Parliament.
Considering paternity leave since its onset over two decades ago, the report states that the report states: “Now we’ve one of many worst authorized vacation proposals for father and different dad and mom within the developed world.”
In Spain, new dads can work 16 weeks on full salary.
The new rules introduced in France in 2021 means that working dads can now spend 28 days at home while paying.
Family in Sweden is entitled to 480 days paid ancestral holiday, with 90 days reserved for the father.
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James Yets, Havarhil, tells Safok that it was “horrible”, to return to work exactly two weeks after his son, Luka, Luka was born in September 2024.
Although he says that his son's birth was “the happiest second of my life”, he soon felt as if he was “leaving his companion in Lurch”.
“There shall be occasions when my companion was struggling and I’ve to go away to go to work,” he stated.
“I felt as if I used to be letting him go down and let my son go down.”
James works for NHS, which paid 100% of his general salary to his legal paternity, but it seems that he was prevented from having “extra present dad and mom”.
The WEC report also saw a shared parents' holiday, which was introduced in 2014 and allows the parents to be paid up to 50 weeks after birth or adoption of a child and paying up to 37 weeks.
But in the review, many families considered it “unnecessarily advanced” and “burden”.
It is used in less than 2% of all births and A government review from 2023 About half (45%) of all dads did not know that shared parents' leave was also an option.
The report has been released on the eve of the world's first father strike.
Hundreds of fathers are expected to be picked out outside the department for trade and trade in London on Wednesday to call for overhaul of the UK's parents' holiday policies.
New research by Dad Shift and Sean Davis MP suggests that only 3% of the money spent on parents in Britain support father and non-organs.
Information provided by employers to HMRC shows that £ 3.3bn was spent on statutory maternity pay in 2023/24.
During the same period, £ 69m was spent on paternity pay and £ 34.4m statutory shared parents.
Dad Shift co-founder George Gabriel said that the Paternity Leave Lodge means that Dad often has to return to work before the end of his two-week paternity leave.
“Pie is small and the items left for the dads and the non-fierce dad and mom are very pathetic,” he said.
Kathy Jones, Chief Executive of the FatherDhud Institute, said he welcomed several conclusions of the report, but said “households mustn’t wait until the subsequent Parliament to come back for it”.
The government said that its upcoming review, which is going to be before mid-July, will see all the current parents' rights.
A spokesman said that it is already in the process of ensuring that dads no longer need to be employed for 26 weeks so that paternity can be entitled to leave.
“This authorities is dedicated to making sure that the dad and mom get the absolute best assist to steadiness their work and home life,” he stated.
Additional reporting from George Walker.
With inputs from BBC