The Act on supporting parents in professional activity and in raising children – “Active Parent” introduces a number of solutions intended to facilitate the reconciliation of professional duties and family life. What improvements does it exactly introduce and from when?
“Active Parent” Act introduces a range of solutions aimed, among other things, at facilitating the return to the labour market after parental leave and helping parents to stay in work.
The Act introduces three benefits for professionally active parents:
The above mentioned benefits cannot be combined, and parents will choose the form of support that is most beneficial to them. The legislator also provided for the possibility of changing the decision during the programme and switching from one form of support to another.
Pursuant to the Act, the new solutions will be available from 1 October 2024. The Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) will pay the benefits.
According to the publication Employment and wages in the national economy in the 1st–3rd quarter of 2023 presented by the Central Statistical Office (GUS), in the first three quarters of 2023 the average monthly employment amounted to 9,378.3 thousand of full-time positions. More than half of the full-time positions – 68.5% – were in the private sector, and most of the full-time positions in this sector were concentrated in the section – Industrial processing (2,330.4 thousand of full-time positions).
In the 4th quarter of 2023, according to the data presented in the publication Economic activity of the Polish population – 4th quarter of 2023, professionally active people constituted 58.9% of the population aged 15-89. This indicator was higher than in the 3rd quarter of 2023 (by 0.4 percentage points).
It is worth noting that compared to the 3rd quarter of 2023, the number of working people increased among women (by 44,000, i.e. by 0.6%), and among men it remained unchanged. On an annual basis, the employment rate of women increased by 0.5 percentage points.
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