Amazon Offers Paternity Leave To Employees In America

Amazon lately turned into the latest huge technology enterprise to extend its paid maternity leave benefits. The newly introduced program lets new mothers avail 5 months of paid vacations, whereas 6 weeks to other new parentages (such as adoptive parents, fathers and LGTB partners who can’t bear children).

Amazon news exclaimed that the newly introduced policy is applicable to full-time employees, both hourly and salaried, who are known for working at the organization for a minimum of 12 months. The offer also encompasses an idea of "leave share", which lets the organization’s workers share their parental vacation with any spouse whose employer is not offering the benefit.

For instance, a new mother is prepared to return back to do her job after ten weeks, but her spouse wants to avail a shift at house with their new son. If the employer of the husband does not provide him parental leave, he could avail 6 weeks of Amazon’s offered paid leave.

Amazon news today informed that the enterprise’s strategy is innovative and generous, and it is able to recognize the extent to which it is significant for fathers, and not only mothers, to avail leave. It is also pointing out some significant inequalities in the United States, the only industrial country with no national salaried paternity leave program.

The five months of paternity leave, which the organization provides, might look generous in the U.S., but it is really insignificant when a comparison is made with the rest of the developed countries’ offered leaves. 490 days in Norway, 325 days in Germany, and 245 days in Canada. Even the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lets employees avail a leave of 70 days.

Amazon Breaking news affirmed that executive director of Family Values @ Work and paid leave advocate, Ellen Bravo, stated "Compared to what the rest of the world does, we're definitely backward. We're the outlier."

Amazon informed that the company’s newly introduced “leave share" plan lets it bridge gaps for families, but it also reminds that how huge these gaps could prove to be.

Vox reported that only 12% of employees are able to access a paid family leave through their boss, and the offered access is not distributed in a fair manner. Only 5% of employees in the least paid 25% of the workforce have employer-supported paid leave, whereas 22% of the topmost 10% of the earners do.

This Amazon’s initiative would enhance its image in the competitive industry.