article thumbnail

How to retain parents after parental leave

HR Digest

It is even more fatal for organizations to lose members of their workforce in the context of parental leave. With clear-cut planning and by specifying an in-house concept for parental leave, you can provide guidance for HR managers and other responsible leaders. Do you offer paid sick leave for children ?

article thumbnail

Poll: 91% of employees aiming to bring in new wellbeing benefits

Employee Benefits

Earlier this month global technology firm Wise announced new leave policies for all of its 3,000 employees across the world. All workers who have been at the organisation for more than one year will have access to 18 fully-paid weeks of parental leave for birth or adoption.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Wise launches new leave policies for staff

Employee Benefits

According to the business, it has decided to apply its minimum holiday, parental leave and general leave policies in order to create a fairer global standard, where members of staff have the flexibility and space to do their best work regardless of where they are in the world.

article thumbnail

Top 5 Countries with Best Paid Leave Policies

Global People Strategist

Finland offers long leave policies with 30 days of paid vacation leave days, 10 sick leave days, and 164 days of paid parental leave that can be used by both parents. In addition, parents have the right to transfer 69 days of their leave to the other parent.

article thumbnail

The future of FMLA points to paid leave

Business Management Daily

Several large cities have passed paid sick leave ordinances as well. Concerns over sick workers transmitting disease have been a consistent theme justifying municipal ordinances. In 2014, President Obama issued Executive Order 13706 that require federal contractors to provide their employees with paid leave.

article thumbnail

New poll reveals the benefits and perks that employees value most

cipHR

Paid sick leave tops the list of benefits and incentives that matter most to British employees , according to new research by HR and payroll software provider CIPHR. While more men, on average, favour being awarded a performance bonus over being paid a market-value salary (45% vs 34%). Paid sick leave (67%).

article thumbnail

Massachusetts Employee Handbooks: Are You Meeting Compliance?

Genesis HR Solutions

Your leave entitlements should be explicit regarding employee eligibility, and listed as policies in your handbook (for example, “Sick leave policy,” “Parental leave policy,” etc.) All Massachusetts-specific job protection policies.