(ANSA) – MILAN, 07 MAR – The online petition ‘Parents # allapari’ is launched on the Change.org platform, which aims to increase mandatory paternity leave. On the eve of March 8, the civic and political activism laboratory ‘Movimenta’ launched the collection of signatures, which has long supported the need to go beyond 10 days of compulsory leave, included in the latest budget law in compliance with a European directive, with the support of Coop and the Papa Penguin community.
“With this campaign we want to encourage new and future fathers to claim the right to 100% paid paternity leave for a minimum of three months – explains Valeria Ronzitti, member of the management of Movimenta -, as well as show companies the opportunity that such a measure would represent for their productivity “.
The challenge of the promoters is to replicate the success of the ‘Stop Tampon tax’ petition to lower VAT on women’s sanitary products, “among the most signed in the history of Change.org in Italy, which with about 700 thousand signatures – after 3 years of mobilization from below – managed to create a substantial change for 2022, imposing itself on the executive’s agenda which lowered the rate on these assets from 22% to 10% “, underlines Fiamma Goretti, communication manager of the online platform. A result made possible thanks to the mobilization of various forces of civil society, including the Coop.
Last year, the supermarket chain launched the ‘Close the gap – let’s reduce differences’ campaign on gender equality by signing an agenda of actions and commitments, including support for the collection of signatures against the ‘tampon tax’.
This year “we have focused our attention on a measure, mandatory paternity leave, on which we believe our country and our society must make progress.
Because being more with your children is a right that must also be recognized for men “, says Maura Latini, managing director of Coop Italia. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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