Provide Statutory Parental Pay to both Parents

Rejected 20 signatures

What the petition asks

Both parents should be provided with the opportunity to take parental leave (maternity or paternity) and receive payment without impacting each other.

Less females in top positions - often due to career gap for maternity and subsequent reduction in hours for ongoing support
Dads/ second parent are not provided opportunity to have paid time off with little one without impacting mums time/ pay
Wealth of evidence that children benefit from a two person household

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for a similar action:

Reform maternity, paternity, shared parental & adoption leave and pay

Timeline

25 Jul 2023	Petition opened for signatures
27 Jul 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 20

Status Rejected

Rejected 27 Jul 2023

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