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Monday, September 27, 2010

Employers' Support for Adopted Parents Earns Praise from National Magazine

Working Mothers magazine has released its list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. The list includes several large corporations and some small businesses. The amount of paid leave given to adoptive parents was included in the selection criteria.

“Pfizer, which has about 5,000 Connecticut employees, allows pregnant women to work the last three weeks before their due dates at home, and offers 15 weeks of paid maternity leave. Fathers and adoptive parents can take six paid weeks of leave…Lego…offers 13 paid weeks for one parent, two weeks for the other. Adoptions are eligible for a subsidy of $5,000.” [Source: Hartford (CT) Courant]

MetLife, Yale New Haven Hospital, and General Electric were included in the list as well.


 

Labels: awareness, parental_rights, workplace

Posted By: Adoption Issues

Comments:

Chelsea on 11/3/2010
I'm so psyched to hear about companies like this! I am adopted and I know that even if a mother hasn't gone through birth, she still goes through a major life change when a new child comes into the home. Any parent does (moms, dads). How wonderful that some companies understand the value of letting some employees work from home.