Flexibilní režim čerpání rodičovského příspěvku a slad'ování rodičovství s placenou prací
The flexible parental benefits system and the reconciling of parenthood with paid work

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on transformations with regard to the parental allowance and parental leave between 2007 and 2014 as well as on the results of the reform of parental benefits with regard to the reconciliation of parental and professional responsibilities. It employs the latest quantitative data from the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs database on parental benefits and Czech data from two waves of TransPARENT international qualitative research from the years 2011 to 2014. The research was based on interviews with 16 parent couples who were expecting the birth of their first child and with the same couples when the child reached the age of one-and-a-half years. The article presents the views and real-life experiences of parents with concern to the reconciliation of their parental roles and paid employment. The possibility of reducing the period over which parental allowance is received whilst maintaining the total volume of the benefit was found to encourage women to return more quickly to the labour market. At the conception level, it was found that parents do not perceive caring for very young children as presenting an obstacle to work for the female partner; however, limits were perceived in terms of the ways in which to provide for the care of children when the woman is at work.

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