Last week, San Francisco became the first city in the United States, to mandate six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents. On Monday, Ne...
Last week, San Francisco became the first city in the United States, to mandate six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents. On Monday, New York Government announced it would allow 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents, but only paying 50 percent of wages during the leave.
United States is the one of two countries in the world which does not mandate paid leave for new parents. See Figure 1, 58 percent of countries provide funding through national social security, 25 percent provide paid leave only through employer, and in 16 percent of countries, the employers and the social security systems share the cost of funding.*
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Although San Francisco offers generous funding for family leave, it still far behind the majority of countries in the world in paying for maternity leave. The average number of weeks of paid leave of all countries is 54 weeks. However, San Francisco and New York�s policies are arguably more progressive than others, because the leave will benefit both mothers and their partners. Therefore, although San Francisco and New York rank at the bottom in paid leave for mothers, they rank at the top of the list in paid leave for fathers (Figure 2).
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| Figure 2 |
These statistics were released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2015. These ranks and measures reflect how much time the new parents can stay with their new babies.
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