Wednesday, November 4, 2026 Vilnius · Lithuania
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Fathers and parental leave: why is it sluggishly used in Lithuania?

In the Seimas – a proposal to change the procedure for non-transferable parental leave. Social Democrat Darius Razmislevičius states that very few fathers take advantage of the opportunity to care for a child for two months and receive a benefit for it, and as a result, families suffer because these months cannot be transferred to the child's mother, thus shortening the total paid childcare period. The Minister of Social Security and Labour hopes that fathers…

Source: LRT

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