CD&V wants two years of leave per child, divided among (grand) parents
Nahima Lanjri (CD&V). – © Belga
A ‘backpack’ of two years of leave per child, that parents can also share with grandparents and plus parents. For example, CD&V wants to shape the family credit agreed in the coalition agreement that all leave systems throw together from birth. MPs Nahima Lanjri and Nathalie Muylle together submitted a proposal for more leave, better paid and more flexible until the child is 18 years old. This is how Het Laatste Nieuws announces Friday.
First and foremost, CD&V wants more and better leave at birth: 24 weeks or 6 months for both parents together, instead of 15 weeks for the mother and 20 days for the father today. Those who divide it neatly get as a torque for 6 more weeks: a ‘gender bonus’. You can flexibly record a part of that so -called ‘birth credit’ until your child is 3 years old.
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In the proposal, CD&V also increases the benefit for parental leave and relaxes a few conditions, so that it also becomes less wide for parents who have it less wide and parents with temporary contracts. Parents who want that can also have large and plus parents taken part of the leave rights, although that reimbursement is lower.
24 months per child
In total, according to CD&V, 24 months of leave may be taken for each child, although for budgetary reasons she only sees this feasible by 2030. Against CD&V says he wants to be « the Scandinavia of Western Europe in the field of family policy ».
The extra leave at birth and until the child is 3 years old, the party hopes to introduce next year, although it does not come with the 25 million a year that is extra for this purpose in the budget.
