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Parental Leave

"Parental Leave" may refer to federal or state legislation requiring most employers to provide unpaid leave for a period after birth/adoption, or it may refer to specific company policies that offer enhanced benefits.

Family Medical Leave Act Home Page provides information on federal legislation regarding parental leave. The United States Department of Labor.

U. S. Office of Personnel Management Compensation Administration provides information on family-friendly leave policies for federal employees.

Babyworld provides information for working parents about parental leave in England.

Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Dependent Care: This committee develops human resource policies for University of California, Berkeley faculty and staff.

Family Medical Leave Act University of Colorado Policies Title provides an example of family medical leave for faculty and unclassified staff

United States Office of Personnel Management Leave Administration Index provides a report to Congress on paid parental leave, 2001, from the U. S. Office of Personnel Management.

OPM (United State Office of Personnel Management) provides information on federal pay and leave.

The Maternity and Parental Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2001 provides information on Parental Leave legislation from the United Kingdom.

Businesses that provide parental leave benefits:

Deloitte Touche is a professional services organizations with 29,154 employees. It offers flextime, parental leave, adoption assistance and reimbursement, child care and elder care resources and more.

Household International is a consumer financial services organization with 30,000 employees. It offers part-time, flextime, telecommuting, job sharing, compressed-work-week opportunities and family leave.

Johnson & Johnson Balancing Family and Work is a manufacturer of a broad range of products in the health care field, employing approximately 101,800 people worldwide. The company offers flexible leave policy for family care matters, resource and referral programs for child care and elder care services, and adoption benefits.

Adoption Assistance

Employers may offer financial assistance and/or time off for parents who adopt children. The following are businesses providing adoption assistance options

Deloitte Touche is a professional services organization with 29,154 employees. It offers flextime, parental leave, adoption assistance and reimbursement, and child care and elder care resource and referral.

Genentech, a biotechnology company, has 5,000 employees. It offers child care and eldercare resource and referral services, near-site child care, and adoption assistance.

Johnson & Johnson is a manufacturer of a broad range of products in the health care field, employing approximately 101,800 worldwide. The company offers flexible leave policy for family care matters, resource and referral programs for child care and elder care services, and adoption benefits.

Texas Instruments is a digital signal processing and analog technology manufacturer. The company has more than 35,400 employee worldwide. It offers flexible work arrangements, resource information and referral services for child care, adoption, and elder care, new mothers rooms for nursing mothers in all major facilities and a on-line parent network for employees to share information on issues related to children and parenting.

Tax Credits

Dependent Care Assistance Plans: Information from the National Women's Law Center on Dependent Care Assistant Plans.

The National Women's Law Center Tax Credits Outreach Campaign: A Toolkit for Child Care Advocates

The 2005 Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach Kit: Information from the Center on Budget and Policy

Job Sharing

Job sharing is a flexible benefit in which two or more people voluntarily share the responsibilities of one full-time position and prorate the salary and benefits.

Businesses that provide job sharing options:

Hewlett-Packard is a supplier of measurement, computation and communication products and services and has 88,000 employees worldwide. It offers flexible time off, flexible work arrangements and company dependent care reimbursement accounts.

JPMorgan Chase is a global financial services firm. It offers a network of onsite back-up child care centers, flexible work arrangements and a elder care assessment program.

Prudential Financial is a financial services company, with over 5,000 employees nationwide. The company offers on-site and near-site child care centers, child care referrals, discounts through national child care providers, and flexible work arrangements.

Texas Instruments is a digital signal processing and analog technology manufacturer. The company has more than 35,400 employee worldwide. It offers flexible work arrangements, resource information and referral services for child care, adoption, and elder care, new mothers rooms for nursing mothers in all major facilities and an on-line parent network for employees to share information on issues related to children and parenting.