Amazon made a big announcement [in November] about parental leave. This comes after the firestorm following the New York Times article on Amazon’s office culture (including how unfriendly it was to new parents). In an email message forwarded to Jezebel, Amazon is now going to offer up to 20 weeks of parental leave for birth mothers, andContinue reading “What’s missing from Amazon’s new parental leave policy”
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Stressed, Tired, Rushed: A Portrait of the Modern Family
Children are much more likely than not to grow up in a household in which their parents work, and in nearly half of all two-parent families today, both parents work full time, a sharp increase from previous decades. What hasn’t changed: the difficulty of balancing it all. Working parents say they feel stressed, tired, rushedContinue reading “Stressed, Tired, Rushed: A Portrait of the Modern Family”
King County vs. Seattle paid family leave: both a step forward, both need improvement
Seattle’s own Erica C. Barnett takes a closer look at recent paid family leave plans passed by Seattle and King County, and finds the city provides as little as four weeks guaranteed time off, while the county guarantees 12 weeks but requires long-term employees to exhaust as much as 10 weeks of their sick leave,Continue reading “King County vs. Seattle paid family leave: both a step forward, both need improvement”
Washington Work and Family Coalition 