User:Hetsvi/Luxembourg parental

Luxembourg
Luxembourg's parental law covers a breath of different situations like child birth to adoption and several others, depending on the age and situation. If there is a child birth, the mother regardless of whether she works for an organization, is an apprentice or has her own business gets a pre-natal maternity leave of 8 weeks before the expected date and a 12 weeks post-natal leave. While the father gets 10-days leave and 4-days in case they are a civil servant and are required to take it within the first 2 months of the child birth. If there is an adoption, one of the two spouses can take up to a 12-week leave if the adopted child is under the age of 12 years. Luxembourg provides a fix compensation rate during parental leave which is €1778, while most of the other European countries get compensation as a percentage of the salary. Luxembourg doesn't have a policy for maternity allowance in place or in addition to the maternity leave pay. Maternity allowance means the money paid during pregnancy or just after child birth. According 2013 OECD data, public expenditure on maternal and paternal leaves on per child born was the most in Luxembourg out of almost all the European counties at the 35,000 at prices and PPPs of 2013 in USD.

On December 1st 2016, “family leave reform bill 7060” was passed in the Luxembourg parliament. According to this new reform, now fathers and mothers can take leave together. The first leave has to be taken right after maternity leave and the second can be taken taken before the child turns 6 years old. This new reform provides much more flexibility. The parent has 4 different options either they can take 4-6 month full leave, 8-12 month part time leave, take one day off per week for 20 months or can take 4 individual months within 20 months. The official Luxembourg government portal suggests that according to the data collected more than 85% of the parents are extremely happy with this new reform and 79% people think that this new system is better than the older system.