Labor and Employment Law Blog

Paid Parental Leave for Employees? Make Sure This Benefit is Truly Gender Neutral

A recent settlement between the American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) and a national employer highlights the importance of ensuring that paid parental leave benefits provided by employers are not just written in a gender neutral policy, but also administered on gender neutral terms. The employer will pay $5 million to fathers who claim they were […]

| 2 min read | Tagged: , ,
CO

The EEOC’s Assault on Employers’ Parental Leave Policies Continues

There is a reason that employment lawyers often find ourselves warning clients that, “No good deed goes unpunished.” Case in point: many companies offer paid parental leave policies that specifically address and provide paid leave for new mothers to bond with their newborn child. What could possibly be unlawful about that? In many cases, those […]

| 2 min read | Tagged: , , ,
JK