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Please, dads, take paternity leave for your family’s sake
Increasing paternity leave benefits dads, mums and kids, but there’s room to go after Budget 2023’s announcement of two more weeks of paternity leave for fathers.
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DPM Lawrence Wong announced that paternity leave would be doubled to four weeks.
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I cheered – alongside, I imagine, parents across Singapore – when Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong announced that government-paid paternity leave would be doubled from the current two weeks to four weeks.
These additional two weeks will first be voluntary for companies to adopt, then later made mandatory.
