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Increasing access to infertility treatment has been a focus for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who pushed for it to be covered by public health insurance from next April.
Japan will give national public employees up to 10 days of paid leave a year to receive fertility treatments starting next January, in a bid to support couples hoping to have a baby as the country grapples with a rapidly declining birth rate.
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The government is considering giving 10 days of leave for civil servants to receive fertility treatment. | KYODO
Jiji Jul 29, 2021
The National Personnel Authority is discussing plans to set up a system to allow central government personnel to take leave of up to 10 days to receive fertility treatment, according to informed sources.
The NPA hopes to announce the new leave system, separate from annual and sick leave, along with its recommendation on government workers’ salaries, to be made as early as August, the sources said Wednesday.