President's Office "Promotion of Expanded Vacations for Oil and Wild Births...Application for Postponement of Tax Audit for Family-Friendly Businesses"

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The presidential office said it is pushing for measures to expand support for infertile families and recover the health of women related to childbirth and stillbirth in order to continue the recent rebound in the birth rate.

You said you would also increase benefits for family-friendly companies, so let's hear about it.

[Yoo Hye-mi / Senior Presidential Secretary for Low Birth Rate Response]
The period of lactation and stillbirth leave within 11 weeks of pregnancy is currently 5 days, which was not enough to recover physical and mental damage from lactation and stillbirth.

Therefore, we would like to expand the vacation period to 10 days. In addition, we plan to establish a spouse's leave and stillbirth leave system to help spouses recover physically and mentally.

In order to ease the burden on infertile couples, the relevant guidelines will be revised to allow local governments to support medical expenses even if they do not want to do so during the infertility procedure.If small and medium-sized enterprises with excellent balance of living

days or family-friendly certified enterprises are selected for regular national tax audits, they will be able to apply for a postponement of the investigation from January next year. These measures will be discussed and announced in more detail at the 5th Conference on Population Emergency Measures on October 30.