All firms with more than 30 employees will be required to offer unpaid leave of six months to two years to any employee with a new baby who has been at the firm for at least a year, whether the employee is a man or a woman. At the end of this period, the company is required to take back the employee at his or her original (or a comparable) position.
而自三月八日起兩性工作平等法實施後，只要擁有三十位員工以上的事業單位，不論男女，工作滿一年就可以用留職停薪的方式申請育嬰假，期間從六個月到最長兩年；日後員工復職時，公司必須安排原職務或與原職務相當的工作。