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Low employer attachment and ineligibility for partner parental leave. An analysis using Integrated Data Infrastructure data

Compiled by Raj Kulkarni & Tze Ming Mok, this report is a collaboration between the Social Wellbeing Agency and The Southern Initiative. This study looks at the fathers of a cohort of 53,000 New Zealand babies one year on either side of birth. Income, occupation, length of time in a job and leave eligibility are the key elements examined. It is found that for dads who work for wages - one in six might be missing out on eligibility for any partner parental leave from their main employer when their babies were born, as eligibility in New Zealand depends on continuous attachment to a single employer for at least six months. For Māori and Pasifika this is more like one in four wage-earning dads missing out on eligibility for any partner parental leave.

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