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STUDY: Less Negative Spillover of Paid Parental Leave than Hyped

HR Digest

It includes leaves given to expectant fathers, mothers, and leaves for adoption. Traditionally, all firms are required by international labor laws to give at least 12 weeks of paid leave to women employees who are entering motherhood. The data was collected from 2001 to 2013.

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Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

A recent study of manufacturing hourly compensation demonstrated a similar pattern for the main components (social insurance, wages or salaries, and direct benefits) paid by employers in Canada and Australia: The main divisions of employer costs for employee compensation under the BLS study are wages or salaries and benefits.