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QBE North America enhances paid parental leave programme

Employee Benefits

Credit: rafapress / Shutterstock.com Global insurance firm QBE North America has enhanced its paid parental leave programme to a minimum of 12 weeks for all parents whether they adopt, give birth, foster or use a surrogate.

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From Parental to Bereavement: The Latest Paid Leave Policy TrendsĀ 

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

A new survey report from the International Foundation reveals current paid leave trends in workplaces throughout the U.S.

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Elon Musk Sparks Controversy with Drastic Reduction of Twitterā€™s Parental Leave Policy

HR Digest

Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, has recently made a controversial decision to slash the company’s paid parental leave policy. According to internal company documents, Musk has drastically reduced Twitter’s paid parental leave policy from 20 weeks to just 14 days.

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WeightWatchers gives US staff six months of paid parental leave

Employee Benefits

WeightWatchers has introduced six months of paid parental leave for eligible full and part-time employees in the US. She introduced the policy so as to address the fact that paid parental leave is not federally guaranteed in the US, and it is up to individual states and employers to offer this.

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Axa implements global health and wellbeing programme for 110,000 staff

Employee Benefits

First, Axa has introduced its caregiver policy to provide employees caring for immediate family, who require eldercare or care due to a serious health condition or disability, with up to five days of fully paid leave. Karima Silvent, group chief human resources officer at Axa, said: ā€œAt Axa, we care deeply about our people.

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Tracy Layney Makes Way for Her Vision

HR Digest

For example, over the past several years, weā€™ve implemented paid family leave and paid parental leave, as well as extended paid sick leave to part-time retail employees so our employees never have to choose between work and taking care of their own health, a new child, or a sick parent or spouse.

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Pregnancy disability leave ā€” who and what are covered

Business Management Daily

Women with pregnancy-related conditions that make performing under existing circumstances difficult often find help by explaining their predicament to their manager or to human resources. HR also should be able to inform female employees about state laws that provide additional pregnancy disability leave benefits.