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Add 10 days of parental leave to remarry to have three children


Original title: Added 10 days of parental leave to remarry to give birth to three children

In the nursery room, the nurse takes good care of the baby. (Profile picture)

On the morning of December 1, the 37th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th Provincial People’s Congress passed the “Decision of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People’s Congress on Amending the “Regulations on Population and Family Planning of Guangdong Province”. Parents who give birth to three children and whose children are less than three years old each enjoy 10 days of parental leave each year. Infant abuse-related personnel are not allowed to engage in infant and child care services for life, and new supporting measures to strengthen childbirth support have been added. The revised regulations shall come into force on the date of promulgation.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress, this revision refers to the revision of the Population and Family Planning Law by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. , And supplemented and detailed Guangdong’s effective supporting measures. In principle, no changes have been made to the content that has nothing to do with the three-child policy.

By He Daolan, All Media Reporter, Guangzhou Daily

Photo: Su Yunhua, all-media reporter of Guangzhou Daily

Implement “a couple can have three children”

In this revision of the law, Guangdong has optimized its childbirth policies and service measures, promoted marriage and childbirth, prenatal and postnatal care of the right age, and implemented the policy that a couple can have three children; remarried couples can also have three children after they remarry; People with special circumstances such as disability or death can give birth again.

The regulations provide for the full implementation of the birth registration system. That is, the approval of re-births shall be cancelled, a unified birth registration system shall be stipulated, the registration agency shall be clarified, and the facilitation of birth registration services shall be promoted.

According to the regulations, on the basis of 98 days of maternity leave stipulated by the state, the woman can enjoy 80 days of bonus leave, totaling 178 days, and the man can enjoy 15 days of paternity leave. Newly added parental leave, it is stipulated that the child shall be within 3 years of age, and the parents shall each enjoy 10 days of parental leave each year.

In order to relieve the pressure of the only child to take care of the parents, the regulations are clear: the only child whose parents are over 60 years old will have 5 days of nursing leave each year; if the parents are hospitalized, their children will have no more than 15 days of nursing leave each year.

Propose support measures such as housing and employment

How to implement the policy orientation to support childbirth? The regulations have added a series of support measures to this end.

For example, governments at all levels should adopt financial, taxation, insurance, education, housing, employment and other support measures to reduce the burden of family birth, nurturing, and education. When renting a public rental house, appropriate care can be given in terms of house type selection and other aspects according to the number of underage children.

The regulations also encourage flexible vacations and flexible working methods that are conducive to the care of infants and young children, and adopt measures such as flexible working hours, reduction of working hours, and remote office work to create convenient conditions for family infant and young child care.

Establish an inclusive childcare service system

The regulations also make it clear that it is necessary to promote the establishment of a universal childcare service system. For example, encourage and guide social forces to set up childcare institutions, and support agencies, enterprises and institutions, industrial parks, schools, commercial buildings, and units where young and female workers are concentrated to provide childcare services for employees in the workplace. If conditions permit, nearby residents can be provided with childcare services. open. Support qualified kindergartens to set up nursery classes and recruit children of the right age.

Regarding the requirements for the planning and construction of infant activity places and service facilities, the regulations stipulate that the people’s governments at or above the county level shall plan and construct infants that are commensurate with the size of the permanent population in the reconstruction of old towns, development of new towns, construction of residential areas, and relocation. Children’s activities venues and service facilities. If there are no planned supporting facilities for the urban communities that have been built, or the planned supporting facilities cannot meet the actual needs, they shall be resolved through supplementary construction, reconstruction, or nearby new construction, replacement, purchase, lease, etc.

Remove restrictive measures that are not compatible with the current policy

Delete the expressions that do not implement family planning illegal, implement family planning based on contraception, overtake births, and implement the responsibility system of the legal representative of the unit;

Delete relevant regulations and related legal responsibilities that do not comply with the direction of the fertility policy. Such as the regulations on the supervision and management of family planning of the floating population, the democratic management system of the grassroots population and family planning, and the relevant regulations on cooperating with the health administrative department and its staff in law enforcement, etc.;

Delete all provisions on the collection of social maintenance fees and related penalties, sanctions, and enforcement.

Protect the rights and interests of family planning families before the two-child policy

The regulations continue to pay attention to the legal rights and interests of family planning families before the implementation of the comprehensive two-child policy. During the period when the state advocates that a couple have one child, couples with household registration in the province who voluntarily give birth to only one child in their lifetime will enjoy five preferential rewards and subsidies:

First, for employees and urban residents, from the date of receiving the honor certificate of the parents of the only child to the 14th birthday of the child, a monthly payment of 10 yuan will be given to the only child for health care, and appropriate rewards may be given. For parents with only one child among urban residents, starting from the age of 60 for men and 55 for women, family planning incentives shall be issued according to a certain standard;

Second, if they belong to rural residents, the local people’s government will give them rewards or apply for endowment insurance;

The third is that for couples who have not given birth after the death or disability of their only child, the people’s government will provide certain subsidies;

Fourth, give priority to employment, housing, assistance, children’s education, and medical care under the same conditions;

Fifth, the employer shall give his children five days of nursing leave each year for those who have reached 60 years of age; if they are hospitalized, they shall be given nursing leave of no more than 15 days per year for their children.

Guangdong

On the basis of 98 days of maternity leave stipulated by the state, the woman enjoys another 80 days of bonus leave, totaling 178 days, and the man enjoys 15 days of paternity leave.

Newly added parental leave, it is stipulated that the child shall be within 3 years of age, and the parents shall each enjoy 10 days of parental leave each year.

The only child whose parents are over 60 years old is entitled to 5 days of nursing leave every year.

When renting a public rental house, appropriate care can be given in terms of house type selection and other aspects according to the number of underage children.

If a nursery institution has abused infants and young children, its directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible personnel shall not engage in infant and young child care services for life; if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with the law.

Beijing: In addition to the state-regulated maternity leave, the woman’s extended maternity leave has been increased from 30 days to 60 days. At the same time, each couple can enjoy 5 working days of parental leave per year before their children reach the age of three.

Shanghai: In addition to maternity leave stipulated by the state, the woman can also enjoy 60 days of maternity leave; the couple can enjoy 5 days of parental leave each year before their children reach the age of three.

Panzhihua, Sichuan: 500 yuan childcare subsidy per child per month is provided to households with two or three children in accordance with the policy.

Shihezi, Xinjiang: Families with household registrations that meet the regulations to give birth to two or three children will receive a childcare subsidy of 500 yuan and 1,000 yuan for each child each month.

Linze County, Gansu Province: A government subsidy of 40,000 yuan was given to purchase commercial houses in the urban area of ​​the county, and a government subsidy of 30,000 yuan was given to purchase commercial houses in concentrated residential areas such as central market towns.


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