Sentences with phrase «better parental leave policies»

It's not just about having one issue fixed, like establishing better parental leave policies or solving for the wage gap, it's addressing all of these small things that add up to a bigger problem.

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When reevaluating your company's parental leave policies and deciding what is best for your organization and employees, start by knowing the minimum requirements.

Pinterest provides a unique take on the parental - leave policy by offering three paid months off, plus a month of part - time hours, as well as two counseling sessions to create a plan to reenter the workplace.

Most developed countries support families better than America — which has no comprehensive family policy for paid parental leave or flexible work, daycare, or early childhood education.

The OECD has recently said that «parental leave design is one of the few policy tools that are available to governments to directly influence behaviours among parents» (read more in their Doing Better For Families report).

The study explores different perspectives on paternity leave, including a survey of more than 1,000 fathers from nearly 300 different organizations (primarily well - educated professionals); a benchmarking study of paternity leave policies at leading organizations; and a review of global paternity leave policies and practices, as well as U.S. states that have enacted laws to provide paid parental leave.

By creating a customized policy and putting basic elements in place, mother - friendly businesses support employees to ease the transition back to work after parental leave while continuing to provide their babies with the very best nutrition.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

Why Netflix's Parental Leave Policy is Good For Babies TIME, 8/5/15» «We have decades of research that tells us how important it is that a bond is established between parents and young children beginning at birth,» says Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

Let's arrange parental leave policies as well as parenting education programs to reflect these realities.

Parental leave policies were developed in response to increasing numbers of women participating in the labour market and out of concern for the health and well - being of both mother and infant.

In the US and Canada, most men and women are in the labour force when their first child is born, and about 60 % of women who have a child under three years of age are employed.5 Concerns about parental stress (caused by the difficulties of balancing work and family responsibilities) and about children's well - being (in their earliest years of life) have prompted further consideration regarding how parental leave and benefit policies might be improved, and which complementary policies, programs, and services will best promote child and family well - being.