‘Fathers should receive paid paternity leave’

NEW dads should get paid paternity leave after their baby is born, the head of the Equality Authority (EA) has urged on the eve of Father’s Day.

Ireland has maternity, parental and adoptive leave but, as yet, has no statutory paid paternity leave at the time of a child’s birth.

EA chief executive, Niall Crowley, said Ireland was out of step with the rest of Europe because workers were not entitled to paid paternity and paternal leave.