Maternity leave extended to Wednesday, 14th, Li Sichuan Bidding Office called for an increase of "100% salary replenishment for childcare leave"

KMT New Taipei mayor candidate Li Sichuan emphasized that Li Sichuan has proposed the policy of "100% compensation for childcare leave" to comprehensively reduce the childcare burden on young families.

The Legislative Yuan passed partial amendments to the "Gender Equality at Work Law" and the "Employment Insurance Law" on the third reading today (13th), extending maternity leave to 14 weeks and easing childcare leave without pay until the child reaches 9 years old. In response, the New Taipei City mayoral candidate Li Sichuan's campaign office expressed its willingness to see the law revised, emphasizing that Li Sichuan has proposed the policy of "100% compensation for childcare leave" to comprehensively reduce the childcare burden on young families.

Li Sichuan's campaign office pointed out that the most direct factor for new parents considering whether to stay after childcare is "reduced income." Therefore, he is concerned about the actual needs of young families. The government currently provides 80% of salary subsidies and subsidies, and the New Taipei City Government will make up the remaining 20% ​​in the future. Through substantial subsidies, young parents can have more flexible choices between career and family care. In addition, Li Sichuan's childcare plan covers pregnancy preparation, pregnancy, postpartum health, childcare capacity, and residential support. After being elected, he will connect central legal protection and New Taipei's increased resources to create a friendly childbirth environment.

In terms of medical care, the Li Sichuan Bidding Office stated that Li Sichuan proposed to increase the subsidy for thawing eggs from the current 30,000 yuan to 60,000 yuan, and promote medical egg freezing and sperm freezing subsidies; prenatal genetic screening provides full free amniocentesis, and other genetic disease screenings have a maximum subsidy of 3,000 yuan; for high-risk pregnant women, strengthen gestational diabetes and hypertension care, introduce the Edinburgh Depression Scale early screening and increase the code to provide 3 free psychological consultations, and provide free oral health services within one year after delivery.

Li Sichuan also said that in terms of childcare and facility expansion, it plans to revitalize idle classrooms in schools to promote "public childcare in schools", build more public childcare centers or public kindergartens, and encourage companies to set up workplace childcare through capacity incentives; it also promotes free childcare in sports centers, builds a large indoor parent-child center "New Taipei BABY BOSS", and extends the "pregnancy bus" transportation subsidy until the child is 1 year old to facilitate postpartum follow-up visits and vaccinations.

Finally, in terms of housing support for marriage and childbirth, for families with two or more minor children, the lease period of social housing will be extended to 20 years to allow children to study stably in the local area; it is also planned to introduce stepped rent subsidies to reduce housing pressure. Faced with the challenge of declining birthrate, Li Sichuan formulated a complete blueprint with pragmatic political views, which essentially became the backing of young families in New Taipei.