Sentences with phrase «extend paid parental leave»

UFT President Michael Mulgrew on April 30 slammed the city's reluctance to extend paid parental leave to UFT members as «clear gender bias.»

During her tenure, Yahoo has already extended its paid parental leave to 16 weeks for moms and eight weeks for dads.

I feel that extended paid parental leave supports the needs of women who would like to breastfeed.

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On the structural side, they advocate such things as paid parental leave, flextime in the workplace, an extended school day and year, housing subsidies, tougher divorce laws, and welfare benefits favoring two - parent families.

Chancellor George Osborne's announcement that the Government will extend shared parental leave and pay to grandparents will undermine gender equality by reducing the likelihood of fathers taking the leave, the Fatherhood Institute has said.

the decision to extend the existing system of transferable maternity leave, rather than introduce a system of flexible parental leave and pay in which mothers and fathers each have their own eligibility, and

The government had initially planned to extend statutory maternity pay (SMP) from 39 to 52 weeks at the same time as increasing paternity rights, which will allow parents to share up to six months parental leave after the baby's first six months.

Bright Star already offered extended parental leave — four weeks paid at 55 % and up to eight additional weeks without pay.

At Accenture, new parents who want to stay in the extended health program while on parental leave can opt to continue to pay their premiums.

Take up of shared parental leave has been reported to be as low as 2 % nationally, and campaigners and backbench MPs have pressed the government to replace it with an extended period of paid paternity leave, which is common in Scandinavian countries.

With regards to parental leave and wellbeing there are some interesting changes proposed; both Labour and the Liberal Democrats are pushing for an extended period of paid paternity leave, to encourage shared parental responsibilities and perhaps be a positive step towards closing the gender wage gap.

At this time, only employees in federally regulated workplaces and in workplaces in Ontario and Alberta can take advantage of the extended EI parental benefits or family caregiver benefit for adults since these jurisdictions have amended their employment / labour standards legislation to harmonize the leaves with the period allowed for benefits to be paid.