The European Commission aims to rebalance the rights of the sexes to parental leave in order to reduce the legal asymmetry between men and women. To this end, it launched a new proposal on balancing private and professional life on Wednesday 26 April, to modernise the directive applying the framework agreement on parental leave (Directive 2018/18/EU).
The initiative is one of the planks of a broader and particularly dense announcement of the Commission on reinforcing the social pillar (see...