The National People's Congress and the National People's Congress proposed to extend the maternity leave requirement to 180 days

After the implementation of the "comprehensive two-child" new policy, reporters found in investigations that many families considering having a second child are facing a series of practical problems: the burden of raising children may increase, and whether ordinary families can Can it be afforded? How to ensure the work benefits of female employees after giving birth to a second child? Can the existing medical resources support a comprehensive two-child policy? Parental leave in the first year of the second child

The comprehensive two-child policy has been officially implemented, but for many families, there are still many concerns about having a second child: the maternity leave is too short, and there is no one to take care of the child after birth; the family burden of raising two children has increased; and it is difficult for the child to enroll in day care. Solution... To this end, Huang Xihua, a representative of the National People's Congress, made a special appeal yesterday, proposing to extend the maternity leave from 98 days to 180 days, reduce taxes for families with two children, and provide free daycare and kindergarten services. Case: Mother of two children: I hope the breastfeeding leave can be more flexible

Ms. Wu is a staff member of a sub-district office in Haizhu District. Since the couple are both only children, she completed her childbirth as early as 2012. The “mission” of the second child. Ms. Wu said that when she gave birth to her eldest son, she was working in a government agency in Sichuan. She was originally given five months of maternity leave, but due to the shortage of manpower in her employer, she was "called back" to work after only four months of leave. When her second child was born, her husband happened to be transferred to Guangzhou. She thought about it and simply quit her job.

“In order to encourage childbirth, some developed countries allow even fathers to take one year of paternity leave. Now that we are allowing a second child, this is actually a measure to encourage childbirth. We should also consider increasing maternity leave or breastfeeding leave. "Ms. Wu said that the current one-hour breastfeeding leave per day is far from enough for working mothers. "It should be possible to allow working mothers to increase their nursing time from a humanistic perspective. For example, a flexible work system can be implemented. After returning to work after maternity leave, mothers of two children can work half a day every day and have half a day to take care of their children, or they can Promote breastfeeding mothers to work from home. ”

Ms. Huang, who lives in Agile, gave birth to her second daughter, Yueyue, in November. Since her daughter was born prematurely and is relatively weak, she hopes to extend her care for her daughter as long as possible. Breastfeeding time. As the human resources director of a foreign company, during the few months after her maternity leave, Ms. Huang could only find a place to "pump milk" during work and store it in the company's refrigerator, and then warm it up when she got home at night. My daughter drinks.

"Many people cannot understand the hardships of 'breast-carrying mothers'." Ms. Huang said that although according to the "Special Regulations on Labor Protection of Female Employees", female employees who breastfeed babies under 1 year old are subject to The employer shall arrange one hour of breastfeeding time during working hours every day. "This 1-hour breastfeeding leave is so embarrassing. It takes me more than half an hour to drive to work. This one hour is not enough to travel back and forth." According to her understanding, some companies now have regulations that allow breastfeeding leave to be taken together. For example, in After maternity leave, you can take another 1 to 2 months to make it easier for mothers to breastfeed. However, most of those who can take this leave are not paid. "Because there is no subsidy for maternity insurance, the company can only let you take leave without pay." Survey of netizens hope to have a second child Being able to "add leave" is not "reducing leave"

Starting from January this year, the newly revised "Guangdong Provincial Population and Family Planning Regulations" were officially implemented, which canceled late marriage, late childbirth, and only child leave, and at the same time The number of paternity leave days and maternity bonus leave have been increased. For most young people of marriageable age, they will lose 10 days of marriage leave. For female workers, having a child will reduce their childcare leave by 20 days.

In this regard, Li Jing, deputy to the Guangzhou Municipal People’s Congress, conducted a questionnaire survey among Guangzhou netizens of all ages based on the new version of the Provincial Family Planning Regulations. Among the netizens surveyed, most said they hope to get more leave for marriage and childbirth. , is more conducive to the implementation of the national two-child policy and steadily ensures the stability of the national, provincial and municipal population structure.

The survey results show that regarding the adjustment of maternity leave, nearly 90% of netizens expressed the hope to increase maternity leave or restore the number of vacation days before adjustment. Most netizens said, "Although the birth of a second child is allowed, many people still dare not to have a second child." , giving birth to a second child should give you a bonus holiday.

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Li Jing said that the marriage and childbearing policy should be based on encouragement. Young people should be encouraged to get married and have children early, and should be given incentives to increase the leave for marriage and childbearing. At the same time, the family planning policy should be interlocking and Step by step, if young people are supported to take more marriage leave and more childcare leave, the implementation of the two-child policy can be better promoted. She suggested increasing the number of marriage leave days to 6 days, increasing the number of maternity leave days, increasing the reward maternity leave, and increasing the second child breastfeeding leave. .;