SUPREME COURTS DECLARES LEGISLATION EXTENDING PATERNITY LEAVE AND BENEFITS TO UNMARRIED FATHERS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

SUPREME COURTS DECLARES LEGISLATION EXTENDING PATERNITY LEAVE AND BENEFITS TO UNMARRIED FATHERS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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20 FEB, 2019

In late 2018, the House of Representatives introduced amendments to the Protection of Paternity Law and the Social Insurances Law, by which paternity leave and benefits were granted to unmarried working fathers (previously these rights were only available to fathers married to their child's mother before the birth or adoption).

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