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Paid Family Leave Case Study

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After extending their paid parental leave, the U.S. office of Thomson Reuters decided to focus on a friendly family policy that would benefit a broad range of employees, Paid Family Leave. To argue the importance of focusing on this policy over other ones, they presented the following points. First, the HR team argued that regardless of worker’s age, they will eventually face a circumstance that will require them to take off to provide care to a close relative. Secondly, the company wants to remain competitive to attract and retain the best talent. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 13% of U.S. employers provide this benefit (March 2016). With such little support from companies, Thomson Reuters wants to take the initiative and lead on this HR practice. Additionally, the HR team wants to emphasis and …show more content…

The limitation with the current policy is that it does not provide support for long-term situations or chronic illnesses for any caregiving responsibility. Nor, the policy gives exclusive importance to employees own health. At the early developing stages of the program, there was hesitation around the possibility of workers using this benefit for the wrong reasons; however, previous experiences have shown this is not the case. When employers were interviewed during the Appelbaum and Milkman study (2011) concerning the CA paid family leave, 91% of them responded “no” concerning if they aware of a time when their employees abused the state program. In the year 2016, only 106 TR employees used FML leave to care for a child, spouse, or a parent. The HR team recognizes that employees use and apply for benefits when they actually need them. If anything, some employees might not even take advantage of the programs at all for other matters that need to be

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