A report on flexible working by think tank Demos found families with a father who takes advantage of the coalition government’s new transferable parental leave risk a penalty of almost £20,000.
Polling by Demos of 1,500 employees found that only one in 10 men would use a longer period than two weeks of paternity leave.
In April, the coalition government implemented the previous Labour government’s plans to introduce a maximum of six months’ paternity leave for fathers if the mother returns to work early.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said plans to overhaul the system more fundamentally are under way – with fathers potentially being allowed to take up to 10 months off.
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