Iceland offers just three months of partially paid maternity leave, a far less generous policy than other countries.
Using contractors also can cut benefits costs: they typically aren't eligible for such benefits as health insurance and paid maternity leave.
But the U.S. is one of the last remaining developed countries that does not have a national paid maternity leave policy.
Offer pregnant women paid maternity leave (3 weeks or more) and then the opportunity to take additional time off as unpaid leave.
Most surprisingly, companies save money with paid maternity leave by cutting down on turnover and training costs to replace departing new mothers.
Almost alone among industrialized nations, Americans are not guaranteed paid maternity leave.
As a self-employed video producer, maybe I should have worried about expenses after the baby was born, since I had no paid maternity leave.
The United States remains the only developed country with no guarantee of paid maternity leave and is lagging behind on how much women earn compared with men.
Although some individual companies offer a paid maternity leave benefit, many parents end up using a combination of short-term disability, sick leave, vacation, personal days and unpaid family leave.
Lengthy periods of paid maternity leave can put firms off hiring women, which helps explain why most Swedish women work in the public sector and Sweden has a lower proportion of women in management than America does.
And, without going to Scandinavian lengths, America could invest more in its children: it spends a lower share of its GDP on public child-care than almost any other rich country, and is the only rich country that refuses to provide mothers with paid maternity leave.
She says Sendero then quickly decided to give the expectant mother two months of paid time off for maternity leave, plus other benefits.
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In recent years, their rights have been gradually revised to include paid holidays, sick leave and maternity leave.
According to the website for MomsRising, a group that pushes for reform on issues like maternity leave, fair wages and paid family illness days, 55 percent of workers in the retail industry and 48 percent of workers employed in the general private sector don't receive paid sick days.
We should help these new families care for their children by expanding maternity and paternity leave, and we should guarantee every worker more paid sick leave so they can stay home to take care of their child without losing their income.
Despite her reputation as a workaholic she took just two weeks maternity leave after giving birth to her son, Macallister, and paid to have a nursery built next to her office I still wanted to believe Mayer would champion progressive work policies.
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