Business Management Daily

JUNE 5, 2024

Parents need time off to care for and bond with their latest addition. However, limited parental leave options in the United States often hinder them. Currently, only 27% of American workers employed in the private sector have access to paid family leave. Paid Parental Leave is what?

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Employee Benefits

MAY 16, 2024

Credit: rafapress / Shutterstock.com Global insurance firm QBE North America has enhanced its paid parental leave programme to a minimum of 12 weeks for all parents whether they adopt, give birth, foster or use a surrogate.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Credit: Victor Moussa / Shutterstock.com London Stock Exchange Group is to increase its parental leave to support employees at key life moments and as part of its equity, diversity and inclusion commitment. If local laws in countries or regions offer additional paid leave beyond 26 weeks, this will be honoured.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Global architecture firm Hassell has enhanced its parental leave benefits in order to pave the way for a more balanced and inclusive workforce. Effective now, the comprehensive parental leave policy offers 16 weeks of paid leave to all parents, irrespective of their role as primary or secondary carers.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Banking organisation Deutsche Bank has enhanced its parental leave benefits for employees across the Asia Pacific region. Employees are now eligible for up to 26 weeks of paid leave for primary caregivers of a newborn or newly adopted child, which is an increase from the previous 16 weeks.

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MAY 19, 2023

Credit: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com Global law firm Clyde and Co has enhanced its paid parental leave as of this month for all employees and partners with at least 12 months of service. Employees were made eligible immediately, with retrospective eligibility for those already on or recently returned from parental leave.

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HR Digest

MAY 4, 2023

Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, has recently made a controversial decision to slash the company’s paid parental leave policy. According to internal company documents, Musk has drastically reduced Twitter’s paid parental leave policy from 20 weeks to just 14 days.

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Employee Benefits

JUNE 14, 2023

Credit: DELBO ANDREA / Shutterstock.com Cables, energy and telecoms firm Prysmian Group has enhanced its minimum global parental leave and reinforced a full-circle support programme for primary caregivers. Meanwhile, the group has recommunicated its Leave and Back-to-Work Programme to staff.

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Global People Strategist

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Parental leave—it’s a topic that’s been making headlines around the world. Countries from the United States to Australia are rethinking their parental leave policies, and Japan is no exception. Japan made some significant changes to its parental leave policy in 2022. What is Parental Leave?

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Employee Benefits

JULY 13, 2023

Australian digital and creative marketing agency WiredCo has extended its parental leave policies to include pet owners, IVF and miscarriages. The agency has introduced five days of paid leave for employees undergoing IVF treatment and two days of leave for their support person. million pets now living in 6.9

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Banking organisation HSBC has extended its parental leave benefits for Hong Kong-based staff to foster a family-friendly and inclusive culture. From 1 January 2024, maternity leave for full-time employees will increase from 16 to 20 weeks, while paternity, or secondary caregiver, leave will rise from 10 to 40 days.

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Employee Benefits

JUNE 5, 2024

Investment bank and financial services firm Citigroup has enhanced its parental leave and introduced a new caregiver leave initiative for its employees based in the US and Puerto Rico. The post Citigroup enhances parental leave for US and Puerto Rico employees appeared first on Employee Benefits.

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International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

JULY 11, 2023

workers do not have a guaranteed source of pay to cover leave following the birth of a child or to bond with a new addition to the family. Lack of access to paid parental leave can create a financial hardship […] The post Getting Paid During Parental Leave appeared first on Word on Benefits.

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Global People Strategist

MARCH 22, 2021

A country’s parental leave policy is often a reflection of how the country views gender equality. By dividing responsibilities between both parents, a country encourages gender equality and breaks free from traditional gender roles. Here are four countries with the best parental leave policies in the world: 1.

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Employee Benefits

JUNE 26, 2023

Global strategy consulting firm OC&C Strategy Consultants has launched a fully equalised paid parental leave policy in a move towards gender equality for all of its employees. The policy promotes shared care through equalising paid leave and flexibility for how that leave is taken.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2020

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. Individual countries follow their own rule in determining the duration and wage factor of such leaves. The data was collected from 2001 to 2013.

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Employee Benefits

JANUARY 19, 2023

Australian employer National Roads and Motorists’ Association (NRMA) Group has agreed to pay superannuation on the unpaid portion of parental leave as part of its aim to close the gender pay gap for females. The post NRMA Group to continue pension contributions during unpaid parental leave appeared first on Employee Benefits.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

WeightWatchers has introduced six months of paid parental leave for eligible full and part-time employees in the US. She introduced the policy so as to address the fact that paid parental leave is not federally guaranteed in the US, and it is up to individual states and employers to offer this.

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Global People Strategist

JULY 25, 2023

In tandem, many countries have introduced legislation that grants the standard 14-week maternity leave and a certain number of paid leaves for fathers. Leading the Way Scandinavian countries have become champions in offering a forward-thinking parental leave structure.

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 12, 2023

Facilities and property management, catering, and food services firm Sodexo UK and Ireland has enhanced its maternity, adoption and paternity paid leave benefits for salaried employees, to provide them with time, flexibility and financial support. This could enable more women to come back to work sooner.”

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Global People Strategist

APRIL 13, 2022

The latest that the maternity leave can start is 28 days prior to the expected date of delivery. In case of a stillbirth or a miscarriage, the employee is entitled to three months of paid leave. If the child is less than three months old, than the parents can take a paid leave period up till the child is 13 months old.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 3, 2022

Insurance firm IAG New Zealand (NZ) has launched a new parental leave package to support new parents. The package, which is gender-neutral, includes 14 weeks of paid leave at full pay for the primary caregiver, on top of the current New Zealand government paid leave allowance of 26 weeks.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 15, 2023

Amazon Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has introduced an enhanced paid parental leave policy for employees across United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan who have become new parents, regardless of gender.

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Global People Strategist

JULY 29, 2021

A country’s paid leave policy is usually a reflection of how well they take care of their employees. By granting paid leave to employees through its labor law, a country not only shows that it is one of the best places to work, but it also attracts more employees and reduces turnover. 2. Germany. 4. Norway.

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cipHR

MARCH 17, 2020

The UK government’s 2020 Budget promised extra paid leave for mothers and fathers of premature babies. The government is seeking to alleviate the stress of caring for a premature baby by introducing extra paid paternity and maternity leave (called ‘neonatal pay and leave’). What are employees entitled to?

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Wellable

JULY 15, 2020

It’s true that employers have been rethinking leave policies for quite some time now. Paid parental leave has been a hot topic for years, with many advocating for a federal law requiring it. Just last year, new legislation granted 12 weeks of paid leave to federal workers with the birth or adoption of a child.

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Business Management Daily

MAY 4, 2020

In passing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), Congress authorized limited paid leave for the rest of 2020. In all likelihood, some form of paid FMLA leave will survive the pandemic. Employees could take unpaid leave for their own serious health conditions or the birth or adoption of a child.

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HR Digest

JUNE 15, 2019

Parents in the workplace arguably give employers a hard time to manage, mostly new dads. However, some employers are putting more efforts to tackle parental leave issues squarely – more companies are improving their parental leave policies for both new moms and new dads. Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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HR Bartender

APRIL 22, 2016

The United States does many things well, but one place where we’re missing the mark is paid parental leave. is 1 of only 4 countries that does not offer federally mandated paid parental leave to anyone. We’re the only industrialized country to offer zero weeks of paid leave for new mothers.

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UpstartHR

AUGUST 10, 2015

My friend Lance Haun wrote last week about why he thinks we should fight for legislating parental leave in the US. I mean, heck, getting paid to stay home with a baby would be pretty darn awesome. The big story last week in this world was about Netflix offering a full year of paid leave for new parents.

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Winston Benefits

MARCH 16, 2017

While big-name companies like Netflix and Facebook are leading the way in generous paid parental leave benefits, research shows that paid leave benefits are actually growing more slowly than expected, and the number of parents taking leave has remained static.

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15Five

JULY 26, 2018

Did you know that the United States is the only developed nation that offers zero federally mandated paid parental leave? Forget for a moment that this is a critical time for both parents to bond with their child, paid parental leave is also in the best interests of your company.

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 3, 2024

Through its We Care programme, UK employees will be entitled to eight weeks of paid co-parent leave , an increase of four weeks. Carers will be able to use dependent leave if they are a primary carer or care for an immediate family member for unexpected emergencies such as a child becoming ill and planned hospital appointments.

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PeopleStrategy

MAY 24, 2018

Family leave has been subject to much scrutiny and debate in recent years. And two current employment trends are putting additional pressure on employers to take a closer look at their current parental leave policies: Employees want better work-life balance as they seek a higher quality of life. Go gender neutral.

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 17, 2024

Co-parents will receive 12 weeks of paid shared parental leave, which replaces the standard approach of two weeks following a birth or adoption, to reflect co-parenting needs and deliver greater equity across parental roles. Those adopting a child will receive the same benefits.

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 24, 2023

The law allows both mothers and fathers to take 16 weeks of paid leave after the birth of a baby, offering more flexibility around paternity leave than the UK. Both this and the 16 weeks paid parental leave policies are designed to give maximum flexibility to our employees with families.

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Employee Benefits

JUNE 17, 2024

Employees can take this leave at any point within the first two years of the child being born or adopted, and it can be taken in blocks to provide the choice of flexing it in a way that works for them, their families and their teams. It is now a day-one employment entitlement.

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