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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by Accacin on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:41AM (#13938900)
Wage inequality and higher education I agree with, but we do quite well with parental leave don't we (the UK)?
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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by dagw on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:50AM (#13938941)
but we do quite well with parental leave don't we

Relative to the US, absolutely. Relative to Scandinavia, not really.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by emodendroket on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:36AM (#13939550)
It'd be literally impossible to do worse than the US though.
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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by Accacin on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:18PM (#13943843)
I mean, we're talking about Europe as whole. The UK has the highest maternity though paternity is much worse but still better than quite a few EU countries.
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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by alkonaut on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:07AM (#13939377)
> but we do quite well with parental leave don't we (the UK)

No. No you don't. :)

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by Accacin on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:17PM (#13943831)
Maternity leave in the UK is the highest in the EU. Paternity is much less generous, though still better than a lot of other countries.
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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by alkonaut on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:10PM (#13944324)
The new (2015) UK rules are more generous, but still not the "highest in the EU" (c.f Sweden's 480 paid days). Swedes also don't need to take it at full rate meaning you can e.g make it a 2 year leave with lower pay. That might be possible in the UK too. Typical Nordic is 12 month maternity + 6month paternity I.e until the child is 18months.
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