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MetricLeave, complaints and workforce rights

Employees who took parental leave

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Employees who took parental leave during the reporting period, retained by source-reported gender category, jurisdiction and source edition without treating the count as an entitlement, return or retention measure.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Employees who took parental leave (headcount)
Reporting basis
Reporting period or measurement date declared by the source method
Aggregation
Sum only non-overlapping rows with compatible populations, periods, definitions, units, and deduplication rules.
Pillar
Social
Topic
Leave, complaints and workforce rights
Controlled domain
Workforce
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Employees only. One employee is counted once per declared period and leave-use rule. Sum only mutually exclusive gender and jurisdiction rows after deduplication; do not add a total to its components. Do not substitute current ESRS family-related leave use or future GRI paid-leave percentages.

Cross-library identity

Library mappings and variants

These links compare quantity, population, boundary, period, unit, denominator, aggregation, dimensions, and method edition. Partial relationships are navigation aids only and never authorize observation reuse.

Verified source occurrences

Framework coverage

This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.

  • Adopting Disclosure

    European Sustainability Reporting Standards

    ESRS S1
    Publisher
    EFRAG
    Edition
    Taxonomy entry point dated 22 December 2023; package published 30 August 2024
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Method Variant
    Mapping outcome
    Cross Library Link
    Source locator
    ESRS S1; S1-15; paragraph 93; datapoint S1-15_02; taxonomy concept esrs_PercentageOfEntitledEmployeesThatTookFamilyrelatedLeave
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI Standards

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    2016 edition
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    effective date and rights PDF pp1-2; Disclosure 401-3 and rate guidance p10; parental-leave glossary p12
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI Standards

    GRI 401-3
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    Files published 19 June 2025; entry point dated 23 June 2025
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Method Variant
    Mapping outcome
    Cross Library Link
    Source locator
    GRI 401-3, paragraph b; taxonomy entry point dated 23 June 2025
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Employees who took parental leave (headcount)
Reporting basis
Reporting period or measurement date declared by the source method

Unit meaning: One unit is one employee who used parental leave under the declared source-period and deduplication rule.

Table fields and units

  • GRI 401 edition
  • Parental-leave definition
  • Paid, unpaid, mixed or unspecified status
  • Source-reported gender category, including not-disclosed status
  • Employee population
  • Reported value
  • Employees who took parental leave (headcount)
  • Measurement-source edition
  • Assurance status

Published dimensions

  • GRI 401 edition.
  • Parental-leave definition.
  • Paid, unpaid, mixed or unspecified status.
  • Source-reported gender category, including not-disclosed status.
  • Employee population.
  • Jurisdiction or location.
  • Leave start and end period.
  • Intermittent or continuous status where reported.
  • Employee deduplication method.
  • Reporting period.
  • Privacy status.
  • Source and assurance status.

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Populate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.

Measurement evidence

  • Measurement evidenceChecked 15 August 2026

    GRI 401: Employment 2016

    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    2016 edition
    Locator
    effective date and rights PDF pp1-2; Disclosure 401-3 and rate guidance p10; parental-leave glossary p12

    Supports: Supports the measurement definition, boundary, and source-reported fields for Employees who took parental leave.

    Open official source

Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: GRI 401: Employment 2016 — 2016 edition. Retain the exact source edition on every observation; later editions require a separate method profile.

  • GRI 401 edition.
  • Parental-leave definition.
  • Paid, unpaid, mixed or unspecified status.
  • Source-reported gender category, including not-disclosed status.
  • Employee population.
  • Jurisdiction or location.
  • Leave start and end period.
  • Intermittent or continuous status where reported.
  • Retain the exact measurement-source edition with every observation.
  • One unit is one employee who used parental leave under the declared source-period and deduplication rule.

Record-specific limitations

  • The count is not normalized for workforce size or entitlement, does not show leave duration or pay adequacy, and depends on legal definitions and payroll or HR-system capture.

Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.

Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.