A large corporation offers young parents a hefty bonus if both are willing to work part-time.
Mothers in particular should benefit.
When mothers and fathers go back to work after parental leave, there is still a clear imbalance in Germany.
As an analysis by the Federal Statistical Office shows, most fathers with children under six have a full-time job, while around 73 percent of employed mothers with daycare children work part-time.
Due to the reduced working hours, mothers not only forego part of their earnings and pension provision, but also often have to accept a career break.
A company wants to prevent this with targeted funding.
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Roche supports part-time work for parents with up to 15,000 euros
The pharmaceutical company Roche pays its employees in Germany a
bonus of 10,000 to 15,000 euros
if both parents work part-time at the same time.
Prerequisite for this: The working hours must be
reduced
to
28 to 32 hours a week
within the first four years of the child's life
- for at least one year.
In return, the company pays this one-off grant.
The offer also applies if only one parent is employed by Roche in Germany.
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Mothers and fathers often struggle with the balancing act between child and career.
One company is now trying to increase equality of opportunity, at least between the parents.
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Women in particular should benefit from equality in terms of working hours
With its new program, the company wants to give its employees the opportunity to
split up paid work and family work in partnership in the
future
- which is also what many fathers want.
"Our new program creates more equality of competition and equal opportunities in the work environment and actively counteracts the issue of 'career kink child'", explains Silke Heinrichs, Diversity & Inclusion manager at Roche in Germany, in a press release.
"In this way we create a basis to further promote female talents with the help of this equality."
The Swiss company employs more than 14,000 people in Germany.
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According to Roche, this makes it the first company in Germany to offer its employees this kind of support - certainly also to attract promising talents.
You can find out which employers are most popular in Germany here.
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