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Saatja: "Merja Kauhanen" <[email protected]> Saaja: [email protected] Teema: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Information on parenthood costs to parents' employers in Estonia? Kuupäev: 2024-11-26 13:05 Tähelepanu! Tegemist on välisvõrgust saabunud kirjaga. Tundmatu saatja korral palume linke ja faile mitte avada. Tähelepanu! Tegemist on välisvõrgust saabunud kirjaga. Tundmatu saatja korral palume linke ja faile mitte avada. Dear recipient, I and my colleague at Labore are conducting research for the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health on a more even distribution of the costs of parenthood (‘Vanhemmuuden kustannusten tasaisempi jakautuminen’ in Finnish) with a tight schedule. In our study our aim is to investigate the distribution of costs from parenthood to the parents’ employers (mothers’ and other parents’ employers) and compensation to the employers for these parenthood costs in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia in comparison to Finland. There is a lot of information available on the current parental leave rules and policies to support parents from different countries, but there is much less information/research on the total costs of parenthood to the parents’ employers. We have already contacted a researcher in Estonia without getting any reply. We then thought that the right place where we possibly could get help with the following questions is Ministry of Social Affairs in Estonia. So for this reason we are contacting [email protected] hoping that you might possibly help us with the names &amp; contact information in your ministry to whom turn: 1. What are the direct costs of parenthood to the parents’ employers that are compensated to the employers, and, on the other hand, that are not compensated to the employers in Estonia? We are interested here in the direct costs - either based on legislation or collective agreements. In other words, how are costs due to legislation compensated to the employers and how costs due to collective agreements? In Finland direct costs which are not compensated to the parents’ employers include, e.g.,: costs for temporary child care leave when a child is sick, when employers pay full wage during parental leave based on collective agreements and the parental leave benefits paid to the employer do not fully cover these wage costs. 2. What challenges has been recognized in these costs and their compensation in Estonia? 3. Has there been any reforms in the policies in this regard in Estonia or are there any plans to change policies with regard to compensation to the employers for parenthood costs or with regard to distributing these costs more evenly between mothers’ and other parents’ employers? 4. Do you know if anyone has done calculations of the total costs of parenthood to parents’ employers (including direct and indirect costs) in Estonia? And how the costs for parents’ employers are divided between mothers’ and other parents’ employers? E.g. in Finland The Women Entrepreneurs of Finland have a parental leave costs calculator at their webpage where employers can calculate total costs including e.g. parental leave costs and costs for temporary child care leaves as well as the indirect costs 5. In Finland indirect costs (e.g. hiring substitutes) to women’s employers are compensated with a lump-sum payment of 2500 euros per an employee taking a pregnancy leave. Is there any similar compensation in use in Estonia to compensate indirect costs to the employers? Or are there any alternative policies for compensating indirect costs to employers? We would appreciate very much if you could send us names &amp; contact information in your ministry who could possibly help us at short notice with these questions. Best regards, Merja Kauhanen Merja Kauhanen Chief researcher, PhD(Econ) Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE Arkadiankatu 7 (Economicum) 00100 Helsinki, Finland tel. &#43;358-40 940 1946