Sentences with phrase «paid leave for»

For example, promoted paid leave for employees who are volunteer mentors or participated in National Mentoring Month?

A recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver really drove home the point that paid leave for working mothers is vitally important.

And that's the reason why Scottish brewery Brewdog has come up with a rather unusual employee benefit — one week's paid leave for all employees that adopt a puppy or rescue a dog.

Never one to be left behind, Google offers 18 weeks paid leave for biological mothers and bumps that up to 22 weeks for mothers who experience difficulties during childbirth.

Microsoft offers 20 weeks paid leave for birth mothers and 12 weeks for other new parents.

It offers a generous 26 weeks of 100 percent paid leave for all employees, regardless of gender or country of residence.

They're now offering 16 weeks paid leave for all parents.

The United States» lack of required paid leave for employees doesn't help the situation, as it's the only developed country that does not mandate even a single day of vacation leave for employees.

It's expanding paid paternity and adoption leave, offering «up to four weeks of paid leave for employees caring for others including to support child bonding and ill family members.»

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As of today, some companies are offering new dads paid time off ranging from a few days to a few weeks, while San Francisco became the first city in the United States to approve six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents — including same - sex couples, who either bear or adopt a child.

They've bumped up maternity leave from 12 to 16 weeks, and paid leave for adoptive parents from 6 to 10 weeks.

Most European countries offer 4 to 5 months of paid leave, and even the developing nations of Mexico and Pakistan provide 12 weeks of paid leave for new mothers.

Prominent policies include some number of days of paid leave for illness or personal reasons, and incentives discouraging frivolous use of paid leave.

Clinton has proposed 12 weeks of federally guaranteed paid leave for all new parents, expanded free care for the poor, improved child care provider qualifications and salaries, and broader federal and state public preschool programs.

First, paid leave for teachers in the ECEC data set is based on teachers» shorter 185 — day work year, versus roughly 260 days for most nonteachers.

Paid leave for teachers is reported in the data set only if it takes place during the school year.

Displaced teachers who could not find a school willing to accept them were put on paid leave for 12 months, after which time they were placed on unpaid leave.

The company also gives expectant moms paid leave for the two weeks before their due date.

(He has not proposed paid leave for fathers or other caregivers.)

Other strategies that could stimulate women to stay in science are a) various forms of flexibility with federal - grant funding designed to accommodate women with young children keeping these women in the game; b) increasing the value of teaching, service, and administrative experience in the tenure / promotion evaluation process; c) providing on - campus childcare centres; d) supporting requests from partners for shared tenure lines that enable couples to better balance work and personal / caretaking roles; e) stopping the tenure clock for one year per child due to childbearing demands; f) providing fully - paid leave for giving birth for tenure track women for one semester; g) providing equal opportunity for women and men to lead committees and research groups.

Although a few institutions offer a semester of paid leave for faculty fathers — Cornell University is an example — such policies aren't common.

When the policy was adopted, birth mothers who were on faculty were offered paid leave for up to 3 months.

Mychajliw said the rules regarding authorization for paid leave for other departments do not apply to his office.

Enacts paid family leave for New Yorkers with an employee - funded program that provides 12 weeks of paid leave for parents to bond with a new child or a sick relative.

Speaking in Buffalo, Friday morning, the group urged the state senate and Governor Cuomo to pass a law that would provide for twelve weeks of paid leave for various circumstances.

HARTFORD — State lawmakers arriving for the start of the 2016 legislative session Wednesday have just 13 weeks to deal with a slew of complex proposals, from regulating and taxing home - sharing services such as Airbnb to establishing a system of paid leave for new parents to dealing with opiate...

Ivanka Trump, who serves as senior adviser to her father, Donald, has backed a White House plan that would require employers to provide six weeks of mandatory paid leave for mothers and fathers.

«Oneida County has proactively encouraged raising cancer awareness by engaging the community through educational efforts as well as offering 8 hours of paid leave for cancer screening for employees.»

On Monday, Cuomo signed legislation that extends screening hours at hospitals and clinics, removes insurance hurdles for mammograms and other diagnostic imaging procedures, and offers paid leave for screenings for public employees.

Having paid leave for all New Yorkers is really significant.

She blocked paid leave for city employees.

Provide eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of paid leave for their own serious illness; the serious illness of a child, parent, or spouse (including a domestic partner); the birth or adoption of a child; the injury of a family member who is in the military; or exigencies arising from a service member's deployment.

According to a report by The International Labour Organization (ILO), in 178 countries, paid maternity leave for working mothers is guaranteed, and 54 countries provide paid leave for new fathers.

The U.S. government is the only high - income nation in the world not to guarantee paid leave for its parents.

· change a woman's work hours or · offer alternative work at the same wage or · suspend her on paid leave for the duration of her breastfeeding

Encouraging policies that allow working mothers to stay at home with paid leave for a longer duration

The ideal to work towards would be six months» non-transferable, well - paid leave for the mother, and the same for the father.

Some polls reveal that a majority in both parties support some sort of paid leave for parents (Democrats 82 % and Republicans 55 %).

the godless left has already trashed Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, the 4th of July (and yet they want all of those as PAID LEAVE for everybody whether or not they are of that faith.

(and then they want paid leave for additional «holy days» as well).

Topics included access to paid leave for women and men, a decent wage, and work flexibility.

Campaigners for workers» rights have long lamented that the US is the only industrialised nation that fails to mandate paid leave for new parents.

He has repeatedly name checked countries like Denmark and Sweden in interviews and debates, arguing that we should copy policies like mandatory paid leave for new parents and free healthcare and college education to improve the economic lives of ordinary Americans.

The country's largest insurance company, Nippon Life, announced this month that a week of paid leave for new fathers is now mandatory.

It announced eight weeks of paid leave for caregivers in May.

In an effort to recognize employees» changing family dynamics, the New York - based professional services firm announced this week that it is offering up to 16 weeks of paid leave for employees to care for a family member — regardless of whether it's for a new baby or sick relative.

Microsoft is upping the ante on paid leave for employees who need to take care of a sick relative.

Rockquemore now provides 12 weeks of fully paid leave for new parents.

As for family leave, Elliott expects companies to go the route of private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, which recently extended paid leave for new parents, and announced it would let employees take both their babies and their caregivers on business trips — on the company's dime.