Denying Couple Mortgage Because Woman Was On Maternity Leave Costs Bank $35,000
FirstBank Mortgage Partners will pay a couple $35,000 to settle allegations that it denied them a mortgage because the woman was on maternity leave, even though she planned to go back to work. The...
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How Americans’ Lives Have Turned Into All Work And No Play, In 3 Charts
American workers are putting in more and more hours each week, as the supposedly 40-hour workweek has stretched to 47 hours. At the same time, they’re getting very little paid time off of work to...
View ArticleThese Workers Are Now Among The Lucky Few Who Can Take Paid Time Off When...
Washington, D.C. city employees can now take paid family leave, unlike most other employees in the United States. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) made the announcement on Tuesday, saying that effective...
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Welcome To Vacationless America
As the year comes to a close, many Americans haven’t taken a single vacation day to unwind. In an online survey of more than 1,000 people, Skift, a travel marketing company, found that just over half...
View ArticleCountry’s Biggest Mortgage Lender Pays $5 Million For Denying Loans To Women...
Wells Fargo, the country’s biggest mortgage lender, will pay $5 million to settle allegations that it discriminated against families by denying them loans because the mothers were on or about to take...
View ArticleTech Company Will Offer 18 Weeks Of Paid Family Leave To Both Parents
Change.org, a website that allows users to create petitions, announced on Monday that it will be changing its family leave policy, increasing the paid time an employee can take for the arrival of a...
View ArticleThe US Falls Behind Nicaragua, Rwanda, And The Philippines On Women’s Equality
The United States moved up a few slots in the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report this year compared to last. But it still falls at number 20, behind less developed countries including...
View ArticleWill Your State Make Life Easier For Working Families Next Year?
This Congress is on track to be the least productive in history. Yet 2014 was a year of significant progress for policies that address work and family balance. That’s because of a flurry of action at...
View ArticleHow This Major Tech Company Plans To Attract More Female Workers
New parents at Intel will now get eight paid weeks of “bonding” leave, the company announced on Friday. The leave can be used by both mothers and fathers and is in addition to the 13 paid weeks of...
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How Everyone Benefits When New Fathers Take Paid Leave
Paid maternity leave is mandated in nearly every country but ours: As President Obama noted in the State of the Union when he called for national paid family leave, “We’re the only advanced country on...
View ArticleRepublicans Propose Weakening Overtime Laws, Call It ‘Family Friendly’
On Tuesday, Republican senators reintroduced a bill intended to address the country’s lack of paid family leave. The bill, the Family Friendly and Workplace Flexibility Act, would let employers give...
View ArticleIs Transparency The Tool Women Need to Revolutionize Their Workplaces?
The United States is one of just three countries in the world that doesn’t require paid maternity leave. Just 12 percent of people who work in the private sector are offered paid family leave. That’s...
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New Website Hopes To Keep Women From Being ‘Blindsided’ By Leave Policies
“There’s a lot of mystery around how much maternity leave or paternity leave a company offers. When you start searching around and looking at corporate websites, that information is really hard to...
View ArticleWhy This Law Firm Decided To Offer The Most Generous Paid Family Leave Benefit
Law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has significantly beefed up its parental leave benefit, it announced this week, offering 22 paid weeks off for both its male and female attorneys. Lawyers...
View ArticleThe Navy Wants To Double Its Paid Maternity Leave To Attract More Women
In a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced that he will propose legislation to double the paid maternity leave available to enlisted women from the current six weeks to...
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The Best And Worst States To Raise Kids
As a country, the United States is the only developed nation that doesn’t guarantee paid family leave or paid sick days, and it ranks toward the bottom for how much it spends on early childhood...
View ArticleThe Downsides Of Unlimited Time Off That Netflix Won’t Tell You About
On Tuesday evening, Netflix announced what it’s calling an unlimited paid family program for new parents for the first year after a birth or adoption. Employees will get normal pay and the ability to...
View ArticleCarly Fiorina Thinks Corporations Should Be Able To Deny Paid Leave To New...
After Jake Tapper, host of CNN’s State of the Union, asked Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina about Netflix’s announcement that it will offer a year of unlimited paid family leave, the...
View ArticleThis Pregnant Netflix Employee Won’t Get Any Paid Maternity Leave
Last week, Netflix announced that it would expand its paid family leave policy to give new parents unlimited time off during the first year after the arrival of a new baby. But not all employees will...
View ArticleTed Cruz Thinks Employers Should Be Allowed To Deny Their Employees Paid...
Republican presidential candidate and current Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was asked by a member of the work/family policy organization Make It Work about paid family leave at the Iowa State Fair. In...
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