Accenture, the consulting company, doubled its paid maternity leave last year, to 16 weeks. According to Stacey Jones in Accenture’s media relations department, the firm subsequently saw a nearly 40% reduction in the number of moms leaving their jobs after the birth or adoption of a child. ...
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Presents arguments in favor of paid maternity leave in Australia. Background on the Workplace Relations Act; Debate about the right to paid maternity leave; Views on the benefits of granting paid maternity leave; Issues associated with maternity leave such as gender inequality in the workplace.年...
but the overall impact is negligible. Now I want to call out an exception: maternity leave. There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that babies do better when their mothers take some maternity leave. The early days with your child can impact their development, so if you have paid le...
Both Nick and Gent said that paternity leave should be longer. “I think a month would be fantastic,” Nick told me. Gent was a little more ambitious: “If there is a chance to increase paternity leave from three weeks to something more like three months, that would just change everythin...
We've already looked at how parental leave for childcare has evolved - but should we expect changes in attitudes towards maternity and paternity leave in the near future? Here's how things are looking around the world. Statistics on maternity leave policy and the pandemic-related changes In ...
Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo (and a mother herself), perfectly embodied this by giving female employees longer paid maternity leave. Male employees also received longer paternity leave. This wasn’t a move focused solely on company profits but on the well-being of the mothers and fathers-to-b...
While still not the norm, more employers are offering paid parental leave. As of 2023, 32% of US employers offered paid paternity leave.12That number should continue to rise as more major corporations improve their policies to be competitive. For example, check out the following parental leave...
take leave or returning to work. Companies should also consider how to support managers and those covering for employees on leave. Support systems can include a checklist outlining what managers need to do when an employee goes on leave or regular communications between HR and the covering ...
Types of Parental Leave Offering paid parental leaveis an important part of attracting and keeping top talent. These are the common types of paid parental leave: Maternity leave provides paid time off for birth mothers to recover from childbirth. This type of parental leave allows birth mothers ...