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you're listening to the European parliamentary research service podcast on the parental leave director if you consider that most people become parents during their lives and that most of these are active in the labour market when they acquire this new dimension to their lives you'll quickly understand why parental leave raises so much attention to reduce disparities between member states the European Parliament is expected to call for a review of the EU directive on parental leave stay tuned working parents in some EU countries may experience a certain degree of jealousy when they compare their parental a package with that of some of the neighbors more weeks off more pay and more security for when the leave is over the entitlements vary from country to country but what do we refer to when we say parental leave ing to the OECD it is a protected form of leave of absence from employment which is related to child care it can be granted to one parent individually or collectively to both parents with certain periods reserved to the mother or to the Father but parental leave can be linked to other forms of leave aimed at helping parents to find the right family work balance such as maternity and paternity leave or leave for adoption or childcare so who decides how much leave parents are entitled to take from their jobs in the EU parental leave is regulated by 1996 directive which was last amended in 2013 it sets minimum requirements to facilitate the reconciliation of parental and professional life for instance a minimum of three months of individual entitlement to parental leave protection against dismissal and a right to return to the same or an equivalent job afterwards after several revisions the duration of parental leave was increased to at least four months and new types of lever introduced such as paternity leave leave for adoption and for the care of family members the updated rules also sought to encourage more equal take-up of leave between fathers and mothers and provided the right to request changes in the working schedule when back to work provided these minimum requirements are respected member states are free to decide on their own conditions for parental leave such as the duration their remuneration or limits based on the child's age and that's where the gap begins to grow indeed so what's the view of the European Commission and the Parliament in 2015 european commission published a roadmap and work-life balance in the context of the revision of the maternity leave directive and launched the consultation to ensure the EU is legal and policy framework matches the needs and challenges of working parents today in its 2016 work programme the commission also announced a new start for working parents however we're still waiting for the final report on the implementation of the parental leave directive and a revision of related text so what about the Parliament while the european parliament has consistently stressed the importance of equality in parental leave and called for affordable schemes in march 2016 the committee for employment and Social Affairs voted on a report on the application of the 2010 directive while MEP is welcomed the fact that member states have transposed the measures of the directive beyond the stipulated minimum they regret that not all countries have provided the Commission with correspondence tables between the provisions and the transposition measures and that social welfare rights are not always granted throughout the entire duration of parental leave so for the committee it's time to revisit the existing rules and extend the minimum duration of parental leave to six months will the plenary agree we'll let you know next week at the main plenary session you're listening to the European parliamentary research service podcasts