Parental leave

Recently, Netflix restructured their parental leave policies for both new mothers and fathers to receive an unlimited paid leave for up to a year. The company then permits the workers to return part-time or full-time as needed for a better transition into the balance between a career and a new child (Spar 98). At first, this generous plan singularly applied to salaried workers in the streaming division; however, after a few months of persuasive input from employees and customers, Netflix decided

Some companies are approving parental leave, even for dads. Besides the mother, the father needs to take time off and take care of his wife and newborn. The father should not be required to go to work if he has to stay up all night with his child. Moreover, he should be eligible to receive parental leave benefits. Currently, there are some companies that have started giving parental leave for dads. Before this practice, the parent who commonly received paid leave was the pregnant mother and she

Paid parental leave has been an issue of public and political debate since the early 1970s (Brennan, 2009), stemming from lobbying of the women’s movement and women’s liberation groups (Kramarae & Spender, 2000). The first development towards paid parental leave was made in the late 1970s. At this time the union movement, in particular, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, successfully pushed for a woman’s rights to access maternity leave by applying political pressure on the government of the

As was pointed out earlier, 86 percent of fathers said they would take paternity leave if it paid 70% of their income. For a lot men in the Citation survey, the expected income reduction did not dissuade them from taking parental leave to be with their newborn and wife. My own survey showed me that the majority of respondents, and perhaps of the population, is unaware that there is currently no paid parental leave law in the country. This came as a surprise since only one of them did not have kids

having a paid parental leave in the united states is something that we need. This topic is of high interest to me because they are only a few countries around the world who don’t offer paid parental leave and the united states is one of them. As a person who wants to start a family in a future, not having paid parental leave can affect me in many ways. For instance, without paid parental leave and with the current parental leave policy, were parents only get 12 weeks of unpaid parental leave; will have

Parental Leave The need for paid family leave has always been there, but finally is coming to the forefront of the presidential election in 2016. Both democratic front runners have policies that they have spoken about openly and even a few republicans had some bare bones policies, but those politicians did not make it this far. The best and most inclusive policy in my opinion is the one of Bernie Sanders. Sanders supports and is cosponsoring the FAMILY Act which would provide 12 weeks of paid family

set up a nationwide policy for paid parental leave. With this knowledge I desired to know more, particularly if we as a nation are not doing much to rectify the situation. Then, to learn if any states were doing something about this issue which effects so many people in the workforce. I wanted to see exactly how far behind, compared to the rest world, we are in the issue of paid parental leave. The Pew Research Center conducted a study of government supported leave in 38 OECD countries, and found that

challenges that parental leave and “birth and adoption unemployment compensation (BAA-UC), face are their opponents who think the government would be overstepping their boundaries if the government stepped in and changed parental leave. These opponents say that it would cost too much money to enforce. Others who are against BAA-UC believe that it is the parents’ concerns to provide for the daycare and the duties that come with raising a child of their own. The people also say parental leave “goes beyond

never paid parental leave. When a study was done by United States department of labor, through the Institute of Women’s Policy research, it was recommended that a more strategy planned should be used to ensure employers that total secrecy to any survey done by the agency in order to fully understand reasons behind the problem. This means, a lot of companies are refusing to open-up details of their predicaments regarding parental leaves. Although there is a basis for making parental paid leaves a reality

Two of the parental leave policies that I find especially generous are offered by Netflix and Microsoft. I feel that Netflix’s offering of paid leave for new mothers or fathers for an entire year after the baby’s birth is especially generous because most companies only offer a few months of maternity leave and is not necessarily paid, and many companies offer a couple weeks of paternity leave paid if any at all. Microsoft was especially generous when they nearly doubled their paid leave to twenty