How Small Companies Can Offer Great Paid-Leave Programs
The United States is the only industrialized country without a national paid maternity leave policy, and one of six OECD countries without paid leave for fathers. That leaves U.S. firms to decide whether to provide paid leave to their employees who need time to care for themselves, new children, or loved ones. Just 21% of the civilian workforce, typically white collar workers at larger firms, have access to employer-provided paid leave. Yet some recruiters and executives at small firms, especially tech start-ups, say that providing paid leave to employees — or living in a state with a publi...