Need a Good Parental Leave Policy? Here It Is.

Four ways to make everyone happier.

by

Joan C. Williams

and

Kate Massinger

by

Joan C. Williams

and

Kate Massinger

November 23, 2015

With parental leave policies in flux, and not a lot of federal guidelines in the United States about what to offer, executives are often left on their own to design the right policies for their companies. Here’s a brief guide, to designing a leave that will both retain your talented employees and reduce the potential for legal liability.

Joan C. Williams is a Sullivan Professor of Law at University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law. An expert on social inequality, she is the author of 12 books, including Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021) and White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019). To learn about her evidence-based, metrics-driven approach to eradicating implicit bias in the workplace, visit www.biasinterrupters.org.
KM

Kate Massinger, research intern at The Center for WorkLife Law, is a senior at Harvard College.

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