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Assistant Professor Ingólfur V. Gíslason addressed the Nordic Council of Ministers during their Reykjavik conference in November 2014. He presented a study of parents’ labour market activity and the development of parental leave in Iceland.
- Parental leave in Iceland
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Icelandic families are given nine months parental leave. Mothers and fathers get three months each, after which they get a further three months to share between them. Another three months of unpaid leave is available to them after that. In 2008 fathers could receive up to 535,000 Icelandic kronor (€3,470) a month, based on their salary. In 2010, in the wake of the financial crash, that ceiling was nearly halved down to 300,000 kronor (€1,945). Iceland’s government plans to increase the ceiling to 2,391 euro a month.
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