The Cabinet of Ministers, pursuant to the law on ensuring equal conditions for fathers and mothers in caring for a child, approved the procedure for granting parental leave to fathers for 14 days.
The corresponding resolution was approved by the government at a meeting on Wednesday.
According to the draft resolution, the father of a newborn child may be granted such leave even if he is not in a registered marriage with his mother, but lives with her. Also, the grandmother or grandfather of the child, or another adult relative who actually takes care of the child, can apply for such leave.
The leave is provided once, lasting up to 14 days, as indicated in the draft resolution. It must be used before the 104th birthday of the child.
At the same time, in the case of the birth of two or more children, the duration of such leave does not increase, the draft resolution says.
