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>>If you mean giving the same amount of leave to both fathers and mothers, isn't that already the norm? >In the US it's nowhere close. I think that wikipedia
by SaintGhurka 9y ago
>>If you mean giving the same amount of leave to both fathers and mothers, isn't that already the norm?
>In the US it's nowhere close.
I think that wikipedia page has misleading or outdated information in the summary. FMLA leave covers both mothers and fathers equally.
From the Department of Labor: "Both mother and father are entitled to FMLA leave for the birth of their child, or placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster care."
Bringing up California further confuses the issues, since that is about paid leave whereas FMLA is unpaid. I think the 6 weeks of paid leave in CA comes from the employer-paid disability insurance.
https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/whd/fmla/10a1.aspx https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/whd/fmla/10a1.aspx
- ghettoimp 9y agoThanks, this is interesting and I'd like to learn more. FWIW I did some web searching for the policies at big tech companies (which of course offer more than the minimums. The following article is a bit dated (2015) but seems to give a nice summary of maternity- and paternity-leave policies. http://time.com/money/4098469/paid-parental-leave-google-amazon-apple-facebook/ http://time.com/money/4098469/paid-parental-leave-google-ama... The TLDR: some (e.g., Facebook, Netflix) have parity between mothers and fathers but most of them (e.g., Amazon, Apple, Google, MS, Twitter) give at least some extra weeks for moms and/or birth moms.