The Take Up Top Up Paternity Leave campaign calls on employers to give fathers full pay for two weeks.
Currently, fathers on statutory paternity pay receive £123.07 a week. They must inform their employer that they want to take leave by the 15th week before the baby is due.
A survey by Working Families and websites Dad.info and Netmums last month found that four out of ten fathers don't take paternity leave. Of these, 72 per cent said they couldn't afford to, 14 per cent said that they didn't have enough length of service with their employer, and 13 per cent said they were self-employed and not entitled to paid leave.
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