Employers – we need you!
To mark Father’s Day 2009, employers across the country took part in the first ever Dads at Work Day (link) in a bid to encourage men in the workplace to ‘reveal the dad behind the job description’.
Seven employers including BT, British Gas and the Admiral Group wrote to The Times to call on businesses “to look at men not just as employees but also as dads”.
But what is employers’ role in helping Britain’s dads fulfil their parental role – and what should the Government be doing to support employers keen to ‘do right by dads’?
In its Working Better report published in March 2009, the Equality and Human Rights Commission proposed a dramatic shake-up of the parental leave system by 2020, including four months of dedicated ‘daddy leave’ for fathers (to be taken after an initial six months of mother-only maternity leave).
Is this the right way forward? Or is it pie-in-the-sky, especially given the current economic climate?
Make a comment here or register to receive information about our forthcoming Dads and Work survey
We are focusing on engaging the fathers at work more in the salary sacrifice benefits and support offered by the Trust. I recently attending a NHS Network Meeting where we agreed that we should do a promotional period focusing on fathers at work and advised them of your website to look at.
If you would like to be engaged in the promotional process of focusing and supporting fathers at work then please advise by return and we would be happy to create a strategy with yourselves involved across the whole of the Sussex, Surrey and Kent NHS.
Regards
Lorraine Brown
NHS Family and Childcare Co ordinator for West Sussex
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