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• Is Your Employer "Adoption Friendly?"

  The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption has announced its top 100 most adoption-friendly employers of 2009.  At the top of course, is Wendy's International, Inc., the late Thomas's own company, which offers up to $24,300 and six weeks of fully paid leave to employees who adopt children. The rankings are based first on the adoption cash benefit and then on the amount of paid or partially paid leave given to employees who adopt.  Some companies offer considerably more than six weeks, like #7, Bowen Engineering which offers up to 13.  Those lengthy paid leaves can be very helpful to parents adopting older children or others with special attachment challenges.  In those cases, it's critical for parents to spend virtually all their time for quite a long time, just being with and providing for their new children's needs. Adoption benefits are important because Read More... Posted May 16 2009, 03:51 PM by Shannon LC Cate with | with no comments Filed under: adoption, parental leave, health insurance, Shannon LC Cate, employer benefits

• Planned Change to UK Maternity Leave Give More Time to Fathers

  U.S. moms looking at 6 weeks of unpaid maternity leave will have to pinch themselves when they read about the U.K.'s proposed changes to their current 9-month, partly paid government guaranteed maternity leave.  After complaints that such a long maternity leave shortchanges fathers and potentially makes women of childbearing age less appealing to employers, while the small percentage of pay made it difficult for families with low incomes to take the leave, some changes have been proposed.The new plan would give mothers Read More... Posted Mar 30 2009, 10:30 AM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: parental leave, family leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, Shannon LC Cate, european social programs

• U.S. Woefully Lacking in Family Workplace Policies

  A new study to be released this week tells us what U.S parents already know -- that U.S. companies suck at providing support for parents.  For instance, joining only four other countries out of the 173 surveyed, the U.S. fails to guarantee some form of paid maternity leave.  Workplace policies for families in the U.S. are weaker than those of all high-income countries and many middle- and low-income countries. Among more of the findings: 1. Fathers are granted paid paternity leave or paid parental leave in 65 countries.  But not in the U.S. 2. At least 107 countries protect working women's right to breast-feed; the breaks are paid in at least 73 of them. Again, not in the U.S. Read More... Posted Feb 04 2007, 02:14 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parents, dads, breastfeeding, work, working parents, moms, workplace policies, parental leave, sick leave