Parental leave should include caring for the elderly

While legislation has secured workers time off after the births of their children, or to care for them when they are sick, it should be expanded so that they can mind their own ageing parents, writes Clodagh Finn

WHY aren’t employees given leave to care for parents? We give parents time off to mind sick children, so why isn’t it more acceptable to give children leave to mind elderly or ailing parents?

When a parent is sick or ailing, it is something deeply unsettling to see the tables turn. The person who got you through the chicken pox and the mumps, and a thousand other