TTMA parental leave policies

[hrushka]

I work for a large health care and insurance company, and while it's overall a great organization to work for, our parental leave policies kinda suck. As in I got six weeks of short-term disability (60% pay) and that's it. The rest of my time was unpaid FMLA. A colleague and I would like to encourage our company to adopt more family friendly leave policies (i.e. Paid leave) and are interested in what other companies offer.

So, if you don't mind sharing:

1. What type of paid/unpaid maternity/paternity leave does your company offer, if any? What about your SO's company?
2. What general industry are you in? If you work for a large, well-known company and want to share the name, awesome.
3. How many employees are there?
4. What general region are you in (or nation/worldwide)?

I'm trying to gather as much anecdotal info as I can, so I'm going to cross post on paif and saif.

Thanks ladies!!!

[steph]

1. What type of paid/unpaid maternity/paternity leave does your company offer, if any? What about your SO's company? None, really. We're able to use our accrued annual and sick leave. I've been attempting to save as much as possible since I've had B because I knew I'd have another baby one day. I ended up using almost all of it and taking off 17 weeks. We can use unpaid leave through FMLA if we want. ETA - DH also gets none. He gets 3 weeks off per year but its use or lose annually so he used a week of that time after I had the baby then went back and has taken days off here and there since then.


2. What general industry are you in? If you work for a large, well-known company and want to share the name, awesome. Federal Gov


3. How many employees are there? A lot

4. What general region are you in (or nation/worldwide)? I guess America? D.C.? I'm in NJ but my office is in DC.

[remylove1011]

1. My leave was FMLA, so 12 weeks. I got short term disability for 8 weeks (for csection versus 6 for vaginal). The catch there is it doesn't kick in until you've been out for 25 days. So really I got 5 weeks disability. The rest I used PTO days to be paid half time. You're allowed to go unpaid but the prefer you dont.

MH got 16 weeks fully paid paternity leave. His company just started this in June. (So I'm back at work but he's off with baby girl until 12/19).

2. I work for the county government that houses a large city. MH works for a very large bank.

3. Lots.

4. We're in the South.

[spicysalmonroll]

1. I got 12 weeks fully paid. I am salary... They told me if I had been an hourly employee it would have been 6 weeks at 60%. How unfair is that?
H took 3 weeks unpaid, paid was not offered for any amount of time.

2. Large publicly traded company for both of us. Mine is electronics manufacturing and his is transportation/ trucking.

3. Mine has about 700 across the world, but only 30 at my location. His has thousands worldwide.

4. Massachusetts

[meagpt22]

I'm answering for what I had with my daughter as I was a full time employee when I had her. This time I'm per diem so I got paid nothing for the 10 weeks I took off.

1. I was allowed 12 weeks off. I took 3 PTO days and then went into my sick bank until 30 days out. Then I had 4 weeks of STD (a plan I paid for). Then used PTO again until that ran out then it was unpaid.
DH took a weeks vacation with both kids.

2. Healthcare- acute care hospital

3. 500 or so employees

4. Philadelphia

[dc2london]

When I left the workforce I was teaching in one of the largest school systems in the US. I was granted 6 weeks leave at 100% of my pay (8 weeks if I had had a c/s). I'm in the DC area.

[katelm]

1. I got 12 weeks at 100% pay. 8 weeks was company provided STD for the c-section (vaginal birth would have only been 6 weeks) and then 4 additional weeks were from the new company parental leave that's 4 weeks of 100% pay for moms and dads. The 4 weeks parental leave is new as of March 2016 and the 100% pay instead of 66.66% pay for STD is new as of 2015. My FMLA ran consecutive with this & I could have taken additional unpaid time beyond this but it wouldn't have been job protected.

ETA: my H got 3 weeks at 100% pay. That is new as of 2015 I believe, previously there was no benefit.

2. Medium size software company

3. 10-15k

4. Southeast but it's a worldwide company