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Explanation about work style reform No.3 -About childcare leave-

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Recently, I often hear stories about the childcare leave system along with working hours, but I do not understand the childcare leave system in the first place ...

Childcare leave is an abbreviation for childcare leave. Parents who can take childcare leave are men and women who raise children under the age of one.
①Have been employed by the same employer for at least one year. ?
②It is not clear that the term of the labor contract will expire by the day the child reaches the age of 1 year and 6 months.

Huh. So what is childcare leave?

Parental leave is a system that the state promotes by law, but parental leave refers to what the company has introduced independently within the company.

So that's it. I understand it somehow.

Alright. Let's learn more about the childcare leave system.




Summary of childcare leave


1,Who can take the childcare leave system?

The official name of the childcare leave system is the childcare leave system. In addition to regular employees, in fact, fixed-term employees can also take childcare leave. However, for fixed-term workers, there are two rules.

  1.   Have been employed by the same employer for
    at least one year
  2.   It is not clear that the term of the employ
    ment contract will expire by the day the child reaches the age of 1 year and 6 months

To say that you have been employed for more than one year does not mean that the contract period is formally continuous or not, but that it means "substantially your business is continuing." In addition, one year here refers to the year immediately before applying for childcare leave.
At the time of childcare leave, if the child is one year and six months old, the labor contract expires or the labor contract is not renewed (that is, if the work does not last until the child is one year and six months), childcare leave System cannot be obtained. I will explain why it is 1 year and 6 months later.

2,How old a child can take a childcare leave

First of all, how long can I take childcare leave? As a rule, childcare leave is stipulated by law from the day after childbirth leave (from birth to 8 weeks after childbirth) to the age of one child. However, the period can be extended in the following cases.

①On the day when the child who takes childcare leave reaches one year of age (1 year and 6 months), the worker or spouse is taking childcare leave
Normally, when raising a child, the child was scheduled to take care of the child after the childcare leave was over, but was unable to do so due to death or injury. In other words, it is a good idea to think that when the child reaches one year of age, no one can take care of him (other than the workers who took childcare leave).
②When it is deemed necessary to take a leave even if they are over 1 year old (1 year and 6 months), such as being unable to enter a nursery school.
If you apply for a daycare center and apply, but you know that childcare will not take place the day after your child reaches one year of age. This is the case when the child is a waiting child.

If the above conditions are met, the child can be extended up to 1 year and 6 months if the child is 1 year old, and up to 2 years old if the child is 1 year and 6 months old. The scheduled start date of the extension of childcare leave is the day after the child turns 1 year old (1 year and 6 months).
As a supplement, if you are a fixed-term employment worker, you may extend your life to one year and six months, regardless of the employment status at that time, but if you extend it to two years of age, you must meet the following conditions.
<1>Have been employed by the same employer for at least one year.
<2>It is not clear that the term of the labor contract (or renewed contract, if renewed) will expire by the day the child reaches the age of two.

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