World News | Pope Gives Fathers Working at Vatican 3-day Paternity Leave
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Pope Francis has decided to grant a three-day paternity leave to new fathers who work at the Vatican.
Vatican City, Mar 1 (AP) Pope Francis has decided to grant a three-day paternity leave to new fathers who work at the Vatican.
In a law published Tuesday, Francis amended the Vatican's family leave policy, which sets out the benefits for Vatican employees who have children or must care for family members.
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Under the policy, mothers already were entitled to six months' maternity leave at full pay, which they can extend by another six months at half-pay. Parents who adopt a child are entitled to a similar benefit.
The new law sets out a three-day leave for new fathers, at full pay.
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While the Vatican employs priests and nuns who don't have children due to the nature of their religious vows, the city-state in the centre of Rome also employs hundreds of lay people who work in the Holy See bureaucracy and at the Vatican Museums. (AP)
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