What’s more, almost all OECD countries have paid leave programs around childbirth for mothers and fathers, whether they are birth parents, adoptive parents or same sex parents.
Looking more globally, “approximately 83% of countries guarantee at least 12 weeks of paid leave to parents who give birth,” according to the paid leave advocacy group FamilyValues@Work.
“Nobody knows what they have access to,” said paid leave expert Vicki Shabo, a fellow at the policy research think tank New America.
(Among state and local government workers, 28% have access to paid family leave today.)
At the national level, however, there is still not a federal program for paid leave, despite legislative efforts in recent years to pass one in Congress.
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Kyte, Ying Liu, ”, Vicki Shabo, Mercer, WTW, “, —, CNN’s Eva Rothenberg
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New, New York CNN, Organization for Economic Cooperation, Development, OECD, America . Nine, District of Columbia, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor, CNN
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