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SHRM Survey Gives a Snapshot of Paid Leave Practices

October 6, 2016

Via: SHRM
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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has released the findings of a new survey of its members about how the paid leave benefits their organizations offer.

Parental Leave

Mothers on average are given 41 paid days of maternity leave, compared with 22 paid days of paternity leave for fathers. The average amount of paid adoption leave and paid surrogacy leave was 31 and 36 days, respectively.

Not surprisingly, very few parents left any parental leave unused. The average amount of unused paid maternity leave was 17 hours, according to the Paid Leave in the Workplace report.

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