It’s not only about maternity leave, of course. In many other countries, day care is high-quality and heavily subsidized or free. It makes going back to work a no-brainer. And there are other perks that support families as well. In France, for instance, a baby nurse is part ...
At GitLab we have a generous parental leave policy. When I returned from my maternity leave, I started to think about what that leave means for all team members. I come from the Czech Republic, a country where it is considered ideal for a mother to stay home from work until their child...
Maternity Leave (Parental Leave) Leave that occurs when a family has a newborn child (leave taken either before or after the birth, or both). Paid Time Off (PTO) As part of statutory leave, this is leave that is compensated with pay as though the employee worked as normal. ...
There are significant differences between countries in terms of how many weeks a mother gets for maternity leave, and what’s covered by the government. EU countries have the longest paid maternity leave (from 16 to 85 weeks), whereas the US and Australia have quite a small amount of paid ...
In many jobs in the United States, 2 to 3 weeks of vacation per year is standard. Although maternity leaves have become longer, many jobs do not require the specialized knowledge that dermatology requires to fill in for someone on leave. The person choosing to become pregnant during residency...
The U.S. has no mandated paternity leave. However, similar to U.S. maternity leave policies, many companies offer paid paternity leave to new fathers to help attract and retain talent. Paternity leave is still unregulated by the E.U., and entitlements vary dramatically. Austria, Germany, Ire...
corporates are now trying to focus equally on maternity as well as paternity leaves, to be able to attract the best talent from the market. A survey conducted with 97 technology companies in the US found that the companies which offered paid paternity leave were able to get better talent from...
cut short when she took maternity leave. Six years with the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon was next, then one year in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea — how many people can say that?!). She returned to Lebanon in 2012 to join the Economic and Socia...
Policies should take people's needs and worries into consideration. Many cities have lengthened maternity leave to encourage reproduction. However, the longer the leave, the harder it is for a mother to return to the workplace. If a wife loses her job, how does a family raise children? Comp...
The graphic that ran with Coontz’s story is a color-coded world map that shows which countries have paid maternity leave, by weeks provided. Those in the “none” category included Palau, Papau New Guinea, Nauru, Western Samoa, Tonga, Suriname, and the United States. Aren’t we better ...