Father’s Day in business: what to set up?

Father’s Day arrives and perhaps The ideal opportunity to support business parenting. This is a big problem for the balance of employees’ life, but also for the company’s commitment in inclusion and the fight against gender discrimination.

In this article, we remind you of the useful devices to be promoted by taking into consideration the paternity in business, followed by some ideas of action for human resources to be set on the day of the Father’s Day.

How to celebrate parental parenting?

Before being celebrated, you must first accompany parenting!

While the fathers increasingly share the burden of education for children with mothers, Paternity in business is not yet accompanied.

According to a study by Methodb and Personal Page, 6 out of 10 men (62%) believe that no measure is not taken from companies to facilitate the place of the fathers in the business world. And 75% of the fathers looking for a job not know the measures put in place within the company!

However, the measures in favor of parenting concern both men and women, because they participate in the general balance of life. For example, 67.2% of employees want an ad hoc program in case of family problems, whatever the genre.

Faux in business: where are we?

Since July 2021, the duration of paternity leave has doubled in France, passing from 14 to 28 days (including 7 mandatory). By doubling the duration of the paternity leave, the 2021 reform gave men the opportunity to stop almost a month to take care of their newborn and help the spouse.

However, this policy remains moderate compared to devices in force in neighboring countries. Portugal, Germany and even Spain reserve one, two and four months of well -paid holiday respectively. In Finland, during the 54 days of paternity leave, 36 should be used outside the mother’s leave.

Better to communicate, a necessity!

And even if the French law has progressed, there are still many obstacles for the mobilization of these devices.

Last year, a cereq study on the main brakes was published which further limits the use of paternity leave among the young fathers. It turns out that 30 % of fathers do not take the legal opportunity to help the spouse when the child arrives.

The use of paternity leave is very linked to the type of contract. Therefore, 87 % of permanent employees take, at least in part, the rest days due to them, against 65 % of fixed -term contracts and 33 % of cars -work.

In the work fathers at the time of birth, behaviors vary according to the size of the company. The appeal rate is 88 % in companies with over 200 employees against 79 % in small businesses. He is superior to managers as among employees.

In short, there is still work to support parents in business and promote the use of the law. Many companies have understood that they had to create a proactive approach to break gender representations.

Stimulating examples to support parenting

Aviva, interviewed by Welcome in The Jungle, established A communication strategy dedicated to parenting, without a distinction of gender or family model. Parents leave is the same for everyone. Founded since 2017, it allows the second parent to take 10 weeks of parental leave, without restrictions related to sex.

The parental guide in the business world, published by the Equilibre Times and Parenting Observatory in Business (OPE), is full of other stimulating examples. Among these, the North Caf offers its employees conferences on parenting. Every year, a recognized expert is invited to dialogue with employees who wish to do it during a conference organized within the company. On the occasion of this conference, the documentation service is preparing a thematic file on the subject and provides the staff on the intranet.

If you want more concrete examples, also read our article on concrete actions to promote parenting in the business world.

Now let’s move on to the celebration of parenting!

6 action ideas to celebrate Father’s Day!

Do you want to take advantage of the celebrations of the Fathers to strengthen the commitment of employees within the company?

Take advantage of it by implementing a memorable action for your employees.

Create a newsletter dedicated to fathers

Your Rh communication Reflect your commitments. If parenting is close to your heart, take advantage of Father’s Day to create a dedicated newsletter in which you will remember the internal devices that can be used to educate employees and strengthen the appeal rate.

Organizes an online conference on parenting

Do you want to educate all employees on parenting, without gender distinction? Father’s Day is an ideal opportunity for Organizes a the thematic videoconference On the subject. Management of life times, arrival of the first child, breastfeeding in business, return of parental leave: the themes are numerous.

Start a challenge on your internal social network

Put a challenge to the fathers where they earn points based on the level of sharing of activities with the spouse.

For example :

• Shop at school: 1 point!
• Go get children at school: 2 points!
• Bring children to the doctor: 3 points!

Of course, the tone will remain friendly and the game will be performed on the basis of volunteering. A humor challenge to break the statements to be reserved only for companies that have a dynamic parenting policy!

Release the fathers two hours earlier!

Some companies offer parents to arrive two hours laterreturning to school days. Why not take advantage of Father’s Day to release Dad at 16:00 and allow them to take children to school?

Organizes a sporting event with children

Why not invite children to An afternoon of sports teams of parents/children ? For example, he organizes a football match between children and their dads. Or, mix the teams and join the company’s collaborators, it’s even better!

Offer gift vouchers for Father’s Day

This is the ideal way to increase the purchasing power of employees. The gift vouchers of the Fathers Party can be supported by the CSE and exempt if they comply with the USSAF regulations. In particular, it is necessary to make sure that the use of the gift voucher is related to the family event.

To celebrate the fathers in business, there is no shortage of solutions. The essential is in the intention. It is up to you to break the false representations on parenting and promote the use of the rights of internal human resources and HR devices!

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