{"id":3447,"date":"2018-08-23T17:39:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2018-08-23T17:39:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T17:39:55","slug":"international-new-zealand-gives-dv-victims-paid-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/international-new-zealand-gives-dv-victims-paid-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"International: New Zealand gives DV victims paid leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1489792662097{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1489792637103{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1535045891936{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2883 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/auckland-skyline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"auto\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Zealand\u2019s Parliament has passed legislation to allow domestic violence victims ten days\u2019 paid leave from work so they can escape their partner\u2019s abuse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The country has a reputation for having one of the developed world\u2019s highest rates of domestic violence, with police responding to an incident every four minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new rights are expected to take effect on 1 April. Globally, they are rare. In 2004 the Philippines granted ten days\u2019 paid leave to those suffering domestic violence. Australia gives five days\u2019 unpaid leave. Some provinces in Canada offer paid leave, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/2018\/03\/international-paid-leave-court-therapy-lack-of-awareness-costly-social-media-error\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal government is considering giving<\/a> five days\u2019 paid leave nationwide.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1489792662097{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1489792637103{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1535045891936{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] New Zealand\u2019s Parliament has passed legislation to allow domestic violence victims ten days\u2019 paid leave from work so they can escape their partner\u2019s abuse. &nbsp; The country has a reputation for having one of the developed world\u2019s highest rates of domestic violence, with police responding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}