FEC Approves 14 Days Paternity Leave For Public Servants
POLITICS DIGEST- The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the introduction of 14 days paternity leave for public servants in the new Public Service Rules (PSR).
Folashade Yemi-Esan, Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), briefed State House correspondents after FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Yemi-Esan said that the annual leave would henceforth be calculated based on working days instead of calendar days.
She said that the Annual Performance Evaluation Review (APER) and Promotions had been replaced with a new Performance Management System.
“We presented a memo on the revised Public Service Rules (PSR); and we are all aware that the PSR is an old important tool in the public service; it is what governs the actions of public servants at work.
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“The last time these rules were revised was in 2008; and so, we recognise that the revision was long overdue.
“And so, we put everything that we got to ensure that we did the vision; these rules ideally, are supposed to be revised every fives.
“But this has taken more than that for us to get the revised PSR 2021.’’
She however said that the approval for paternity leave was in response to the request the unions in the civil service made.
“Paternity leave is the leave that is approved for men when their spouses or wives have given birth to a new born baby, or if the husband and wife have just adopted a baby of less than four months, then the man is entitled to a paternity leave of about 14 days.
“So, that is what has been approved for men, so that the men and their babies can bond well together.
“It is important because we want the young children and the youth to bond properly with their fathers. Just as they bond well with their mothers, she said.
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