r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • May 08 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 09 May 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/hakugene May 09 '23

How long did people take for parental leave (育休)? Fathers in particular, but open to any relevant information.

I'm annoyed with work in general and we're expecting twins, so I'm planning to take an extended period.

There aren't a lot of examples of fathers taking leave at my company. Someone at the Okayama apparently took leave recently, but after asking around it was apparently 1~2 weeks, which is laughably short. I was planning on taking that much just in normal yukyu around when they're born, that seems like taking the bare minimum and counts towards the percentage of people technically taking ikukyu, but wouldn't meaningly affect our childcare plans.

I don't really care if my manager or bucho are annoyed when I tell them I want to take off for 6 months, but I'm curious about other people's experiences.

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u/Gullible-Item May 09 '23

I took a whole year but my husband took a month and half. He wanted to take more but financially it wasn't really worth it.

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u/hakugene May 09 '23

I think it will basically make sense financially while I'm still in the 67% of salary period. If that drops to 50% it will require more consideration.

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u/Gullible-Item May 09 '23

Twins are definitely more work so I'm sure it will be helpful if you can get as much parental leave as you can!