Sentences with phrase «paid paternity leave»

Twenty - one percent offer paid paternity leave and 20 percent offer paid adoption leave.

He took two weeks paid paternity leave immediately following the birth.

There has been a flurry of activity concerning paid paternity leave at major corporations.

Granted, it isn't your full salary, for our family it meant that when my four month maternity leave was over, my husband took eight weeks of partially paid paternity leave.

It also revealed that 86 % of respondents would not make use of paid paternity leave unless it covered at least 70 % of their salaries.

A handful of states also have laws requiring paid paternity leave.

A few companies, however, are rocking the boat with paid paternity leave that is above and beyond the expected.

A new study finds that men want paid paternity leave just as women want paid maternity leave, and the benefits are big for employees and employers.

As of 2015, only 17 % of companies offered paid paternity leave, a key contributor to work - life balance for men and new dads.

You're so lucky to have paid paternity leave for so long — one of the things Sweden gets so right is its parental rights!

UK families get a raw deal on paid paternity leave, time spent caring for children and men and women's pay, the Fairness in Families Index reveals.

Research conducted by BCCWF in 2014 looked at more than 1,000 fathers from 286 different organizations in the U.S. and found that paternity leave is important to them: a full 89 % of dads surveyed believed it is important that an employer provide paid paternity leave.

This evidence can not emerge without employers offering paid paternity leave in the first place, and most of the people (generally older, often men) who sign off on these policy changes generally haven't seen fit to do so.

We will however take powers to enable us to extend paid paternity leave and make it more flexible so that we can make this extension at a later date when Government and business finances permit.

Another 44,000 new dads didn't get paid paternity leave because they had not been working for their employer long enough.

In the U.S., California, Rhode Island and New Jersey have enacted paid paternity leave programs, and several large cities (Boston, Seattle, Austin and others) have provided paternity leave for their city workers.

Still, my husband was able to experience caring for our son full time while I worked; they bonded in a way that is hardly possible for working fathers in the United States, where paid paternity leave is rare.

We've talked about paid paternity leave is important, flexible working arrangements, breastfeeding accommodations, what are some of the other things that firms can... Making sure that women aren't given all the office housework.

Two weeks of paid Paternity Leave continues to be available to qualifying fathers and the partner of a mother or adopter.

You don't want 6 weeks paid vacation, nationalized health care, free college, free elderly care, 18 weeks paid maternity leave, 8 weeks paid PATERNITY leave, and one of the HIGHEST standards of living in the civilized world?

Meanwhile Tory MEPs voted against a report on paid paternity leave, reducing the gender pay gap and combating violence against women, while UKIP MEPs opposed investigating tax evasion and avoidance, capping credit card charges and labelling processed meat with its country of origin.

As an interim step, paying paternity leave at 90 % of salary (capped) and introducing a similarly well - paid use - it - or - lose - it «daddy month» might be a step in the right direction.

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.

Only 17 per cent provide any paid paternity leave for fathers.

The nonprofit says fathers receive just over three weeks of paid paternity leave, and parents who adopt or use a surrogate get roughly five weeks on average.

In contrast to Silicon Valley's push towards more generous family policies, Amazon does not offer paid paternity leave, while new moms get eight weeks paid leave in addition to 12 weeks unpaid.

Other Wall Street firms leading the paid paternity leave movement include Bank of America (12 weeks) and Citigroup (2 weeks).

Working - dad momentum appears to be growing: Yahoo made headlines this summer by offering eight weeks» paid paternity leave to new fathers, and Prince William caused a stir around the world when he asked for two weeks» paid leave from the Royal Air Force after the birth of Baby George.

Mothers in Madagascar are entitled to up to 14 weeks of fully - paid maternity leave, and fathers are entitled to up to 2 weeks of fully - paid paternity leave.

Many workplaces now offer some paid paternity leave, so be sure to ask.

In Mexico, mothers can get up to 12 weeks of fully - paid maternity leave, and fathers are guaranteed 1 week of fully - paid paternity leave.

According to the largest ever survey of new fathers, published last year by the NCT and Fathers Direct, 96 per cent of fathers attend the birth, yet half of all dads receive no paid paternity leave and the rest average about three days.

Launching the findings, the National Childbirth Trust and Fathers Direct called for dads to be given time off for a minimum of three ante-natal appointments, the chance to stay overnight in hospital after the birth and two weeks paid paternity leave.

Moreover, Millennial fathers were more in favor of paid paternity leave than Generation Xers or Baby Boomers: 93 percent of Millennials said it was somewhat, very, or extremely important, compared to 88 percent of Gen Xers and 77 percent of Baby Boomer fathers.

Data from this same study suggested that fathers will take advantage of the full amount of paid paternity leave that is available to them: 49 percent of those with access to one week of paid leave, 64 percent of those with two weeks, and 41 percent of those with four weeks of leave took the full allotment of time off.

As professional sports teams and many employers began to offer paid paternity leave, a public debate ensued about the validity of giving fathers time to provide caregiving to their new children.

Our research found that 99 % of men studied felt that employers should offer paid paternity leave, with 74 % of respondents suggesting that 2 to 4 weeks is an appropriate amount.

For instance, in Sweden, fathers are entitled to 60 days of paid paternity leave.

And other companies that have never offered paid paternity leave are now considering adding this as a benefit to meet the expectations of today's new fathers and to demonstrate a commitment to gender equity.

Currently, New Jersey, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia also offer paid paternity leave.

My husband had six weeks paid paternity leave (his company just introduced that, yay!)

But Labour chief whip Jacqui Smith warned the Tory leader's track record was a far cry from his current rhetoric, pointing out he had opposed the introduction of paid paternity leave and dismissed as «political correctness» plans for transferable maternal leave.

A new UCLA report, which looks at «inequalities in legal rights for women and girls around the world» includes a surprising section — on paid paternity leave.