Mums and dads will be offered more paid parental leave (PPL) but the majority of the extra support won't flow for another few years. The PPL legislation was introduced to parliament today, after the ...

Parental leave in the U.S. could be reaching a turning point as major employers revise their provisions for expecting families. Paid parental leave benefits serve to support and retain working parents ...

The petition's delivery kicks off a day of action on Wednesday. A petition to pass paid leave on a federal level in the United States was delivered to all members of Congress Wednesday morning. With ...

Stress leave means taking extended time off work to recover from stress. People requesting stress leave in the United States will need to meet certain conditions defined in the Family and Medical ...

On the most basic level, the difference between sick leave and annual leave for federal employees is simple: Sick leave is for illness and annual leave is for vacations. In practice, it’s a little ...

American exceptionalism can sometimes be quite bleak: The United States is the only wealthy country in the world without a national program for paid parental leave. The U.S.’s best chance yet of ...

Jessica Booth is a New York-based freelance writer who regularly writes about health, wellness, parenting, food, travel, beauty and more for a variety of publications. She currently writes for Forbes ...

The Office of Personnel Management last week offered guidance to agencies on how they should implement the recently enacted benefit providing federal workers with up to two weeks of paid bereavement ...