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Male employees to receive 15 days of paternity leave

Workers hold a sign to call for fully paid maternity leave and 30 days’ paternity leave for male employees after their child’s birth to celebrate Labour Day at Democracy Monument last year. (Photo: Apichit Jinakul)

The government has broadened paternity leave periods to cover male government employees, allowing them to have 15 days’ paid leave after their child’s birth.

The leave extension was part of a new Government Employees Executive Committee’s announcement regarding government employee benefits that was signed on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said.

The paternity leave regulation was added to the section regarding maternity leave in the older version of the announcement issued in 2011. The previous version…

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