Sentences with phrase «year of paid parental leave»

This quote was in reaction to the announcement that Netflix is offering up to 1 year of paid parental leave for its employees who give birth or adopt.

Employees at Netflix are now permitted to take up to one year of paid parental leave when they have children or adopt, the company announced

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This is the reality faced by millions of women who consider abortions each year, and the sad irony is the same pro-life politicians who want to force them to have their babies typically oppose raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and parental leave for all American workers, and protecting the 20 million people who can finally afford health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

We are paid 18 weeks parental leave, and our jobs are kept open for a year of maternity leave.

On the other hand, maternity leave, which is very important for breastfeeding support, is well - established in Germany: 14 weeks fully paid maternity leave (6 weeks before the birth, 8 weeks after the birth or 12 weeks for preterm or multiple birth), 12 months parental leave with 65 % of the mother's salary (partly paid for by health insurance companies and partly by employers) and unpaid parental leave until the child is 3 years old.

(Shockingly, the U.S. is one of only two industrialized countries with no nationwide mandate for paid parental leave — the other, Australia, offers a full year of unpaid, job - protected leave).

Then the couple is offered another year or so of paid parental leave and another several months with only token payment.

As is similar in most European countries, Swedish women have about a year of maternity and parental leave at about 75 % pay, and the right to gradually go back to work, starting at even an hour a day if they want.

Instead, the centerpiece of the teachers union's interaction with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is paid parental leave, in which teachers would be guaranteed pay for a certain number of days each year if they have to take time off to care for children.

Hagelgans, 39, was previously de Blasio's communications director and was credited with pushing the city's offer of paid parental leave to non-union employees, as well as the expansion of pre-kindergarten to 3 - year - olds.

Particular attention will be paid to applicants who have taken at least a year out of research for parental leave.

Those who aren't entitled include shareholders of a family business, the self - employed (unless you're in Quebec or have opted to pay into EI well in advance of your pregnancy), and those who haven't accumulated at least 600 working hours in the year before taking parental leave.

Virginia has no parental leave policies, but nearby District of Columbia introduced new legislation in 2015 to provide its residents with up to 16 weeks of paid family leave in a year, the most generous family leave policy in the nation.