For the first time ever, a Brazilian court has granted
paternity leave to a gay man who just adopted a child with his partner.
Normally
Brazilian fathers are only given five days off work after becoming
parents, while mothers receive four months off, but a Brazilian court
found that it was discriminatory for a gay couple to receive less
combined parental leave than a heterosexual couple. As a result Lucimar
da Silva will become the first Brazilian man to receive the same
parental leave as a woman. Brazil’s social security agency has agreed to
honor the decision. ‘However unusual it may seem to grant maternity
leave to a male person … this hypothesis is possible when the father
takes care of the newborn,’ the agency told Brazilian TV network O
Globo.
Unfortunately this decision does not set precedent and future applicants will also have to go to court to earn paternity leave.
Reposted from Joe
For the first time ever, a Brazilian court has granted paternity leave to a gay man who just adopted a child with his partner. 
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