Yahoo just announced a revised paid parental leave policy. Under the new policy, mothers can take 16 weeks of paid leave with benefits when they give birth to a child. New dads can take 8 weeks. Both parents can take eight weeks of paid leave for new children via foster child placement, adoption or surrogacy. [...]
Category Archives: Paid Family Leave
News Roundup April 30th
More Benefits of Maternity Leave Two studies out of the University of California, Berkeley, suggest that maternity leave makes economic sense in addition to improving health outcomes for mothers and babies. The findings were part of the “Juggling Work and Life During Pregnancy” study, funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. [...]
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20th Anniversary of FMLA Brings New Expansions
This week the U.S. Department of Labor marks the 20th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) with a final rule to implement expansions to FMLA protections for military families and airline flight crews. The first expansion allows more military families to take leave for activities when a service member is deployed as well [...]
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New Report: How Paid Leave Strengthens Families in the 21st Century
The National Center for Children and Poverty (NCCP) just released a report titled “Building a Competitive Future Right from the Start: How Paid Leave Strengthens Families in the 21st Century” authored by Susan Ochshorn and Curtis Skinner. The paper includes “a brief history of paid family leave policy, in the United States and abroad; synthesizes [...]
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News Roundup: September 12
Prenatal Care Finding high-quality prenatal care is often challenging, particularly if it’s not just physical care that’s required. In Slate’s recent three-part series, Not Just the Pregnancy Blues, Jessica Grose explores some of the complex issues surrounding mental health care during pregnancy—from her own and other women’s stories of struggling with depression and finding the [...]
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Paid Leave Policies: Google Steps Up
For more than a decade, Google has been where millions of people go daily in the quest for answers. But according to an article published by the New York Times on August 22, the company recently had to do some digging for answers of their own. In particular, they found themselves asking what, exactly, they [...]
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Family Leave Insurance Webinar – July 12, 2012
The National Center for Children in Poverty will host a Webinar on Family Leave Insurance tomorrow, Thursday, July 12th, 12pm-1:15pm Eastern time. The event is titled “Family Leave Insurance in New York State: Engaging the Early Childhood and Public Health Communities” and will focus on the importance of family leave insurance for healthy development in early [...]
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News Roundup: June 14
We’ve got a lot of wide-ranging news to share with you this week, from an interview with a business owner turned stay-at-home dad to research on how preschool teachers are (or are not) prepared for dealing with young children’s emotional development. But before that, just a reminder to all the dads out there that we’d [...]
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Calling All Dads! It’s Time to Share Your Stories
With Father’s Day just around the corner, we’ll be spending some time next week looking at dads’ experiences in their children’s early years. You can help us explore the challenges and triumphs of fatherhood by sharing your stories. What kinds of stories? For starters, we’d love to hear about: How you’ve balanced job and family [...]
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News Roundup: May 24
For Our Babies @ The Huffington Post In his most recent blog for the Huffington Post, Ron Lally discusses how the lack of paid family leave in the United States does great disservice to families, increasing the risks of physical, emotional, and financial strain. It’s not just the lack of paid leave, though, that leaves [...]
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