When most people think of Etsy, they think of hand-crafted goods and unique gifts. But right now it's the company's newly crafted parental-leave policy that has people talking.
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Paternity leave still hasn’t made it as a platform issue this election season, but, in recent months, some major companies and...
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The United States is the only industrialized nation that doesn’t require paid leave for new parents. Very few companies voluntarily provide it, and the ones that do give dads the short shrift.
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When Netflix and other major tech companies began offering dads up to a year of paid paternity leave this summer, it reinforced the idea that taking time off to...
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Netflix on Tuesday announced that it would offer something completely unheard of in the corporate world: unlimited parental leave for the first year of a child's life.
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In May 2015, TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie made waves when he wrote about his decision to take 12 weeks of paternity leave in Glamour.
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The Swedish government is preparing to give new fathers a third week of paid paternity leave as part of a deal which sees new parents offered up to 16 months off work.
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NEW YORK (MainStreet) — In January, Massachusetts passed a new law mandating that men in the state are entitled to eight weeks of unpaid paternity leave. The law, which is set to go into effect in early April, essentially renders the existing maternity leave policy in Massachusetts gender-neutral.
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UK: More than a third of fathers are forced to use their annual leave instead of paternity leave in order to afford to spend time with their new babies, a survey for Mumsnet has found. Experts say the statutory rate for paternity leave is too low, at just £138.18 or $216.74 a week for two weeks, half the earnings of someone on the minimum wage.
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Even at companies with policies allowing paternity leave, requesting it can be tricky. Here’s how. Dear Annie: I’m envious of the people who work for Change.org and other employers I’ve been reading about lately, since those employees can take time off for the birth or adoption of a child without feeling like they’re risking their careers. My wife and I are expecting our second baby soon, and my problem is, not only does my company have no formal policy that allows paternity leave, but I’ve heard my immediate boss make snarky remarks about it.
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