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The Green Liberals support the initiative for family leave
The text calls for 18 weeks of family leave for each parent. This would allow women to return to the job market more quickly.
Posted today at 4:01 p.m.
This initiative would be “profitable” for Switzerland.
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The Green Liberals want to better reconcile family and professional life. Their delegates, meeting on Saturday in Thun (BE), validated the launch of the initiative for 18 weeks of family leave for each parent, the party said in a press release.
This initiative “is an investment in our future, because studies show that the introduction of equal family leave is profitable for Switzerland,” underlined national advisor Karin Bertschy, president of the Alliance of Swiss Women’s Organizations alliance- f.
-According to her, such leave allows women to return more quickly and at a higher activity rate to the labor market. “This helps counteract the growing labor shortage,” added the Bernoise.
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