Salaried or Hourly? The Gaps in Family-Friendly Policies Begin to Close

Salaried or Hourly? The Gaps in Family-Friendly Policies Begin to Close<br />Now it will give the same parental leave to salaried employees<br />and full-time hourly employees: 16 weeks for birth mothers and six weeks for other parents, fully paid.<br />Walmart had not given hourly workers who were nonbirth parents any paid leave<br />and had given hourly birth mothers partial pay for six weeks for uncomplicated births.<br />It gave full-time hourly workers the same paid parental leave as salaried ones and said it would help pay for adoptions, including for hourly workers.<br />When Ferrara Candy Company, which makes Lemonheads<br />and Red Hots, began offering paid parental leave last year, it supplemented birth mothers’ disability pay to cover 100 percent of their wages, and gave all other new parents two weeks off at full pay.<br />Of the 20 biggest employers who provide paid leave for birth mothers, 13 offer salaried employees additional<br />bonding time beyond the six weeks for physical recovery, which is often covered by short-term disability.