Paid Maternity Leave 180 Companies Who Offer The Most Paid Leave

Paid Maternity Leave 180 Companies Who Offer The Most Paid Leave All About Paid Maternity LeaveOnly 12% of employees in the United States have paid maternity leave. This means that most women have to choose between physically recovering from childbirth and bonding with their baby and making a living.Unlike almost every other industrialized staat in the world, there is no federal requirement that employees receive any payment during the time they take off for the birth of their child. While there is a federal law offering paid maternity leave, the vast majority of women in the United States do not enjoy access to any paid job protection after the birth of a new baby.About the Family Medical Leave ActThere is, however, a federal requirement under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), that many women without access to paid maternity leave use to at least take unpaid time off from work and in order to be able to return to their jobs after childbirth. FMLA protects a workers job for up to 12 weeks during any 12 month period if she meets certain eligibility criteria (e.g. she has worked for an employer for at least 1 year, clocking a minimum of 1,250 hours and her employer has at least 50 employees within 75 miles of her physical worksite).Those who are fortunate to qualify for more than FMLA do so because they benefit from their employers benefit policies. Private companies and employers will offer maternity leave policies, paternity leave policies and short-term disability policies for their employees in addition to traditional benefits like healthcare insurance and vacation benefits. In the past few years, in particular, there has been tremendous movement on the part of private employers to fill the gap and provide payment to employees during their parental leave.These companies are motivated by several things attracting and retaining new moms and parents in their workforce, as well as trying to do the right thing, and finally reducing the cost of turnover from emp loyees who may feel unable to continue to work at the same company after the large, life-changing event of starting a family and having a baby.Companies and Maternity Leave PoliciesDue to the fact that its often hard for employees to ask about their maternity leave policies for fear of being stigmatized or judged as less committed (which is particularly true for women who fear being mommy tracked at work), its often very hard for women to find out what their employers policies are. Therefore, we have crowdsourced a maternity leave database of over 1,500 employers in the U.S. and sorted their maternity and paternity leave policies by industry and length.Certain patterns emerge among the companies that offer these very high levels of paid leave. First, they are largely for-profit institutions (the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, change.org and the United Nations being a few of the exceptions), and they are largely relatively large organizations with large, white-collar, professional w orkforces. They also tend to cluster around 3-4 different industries. Law firms, technology companies (particularly consumer technology companies), financial services firms as well as consulting firms tend to dominate this list of employers with generous parental leave policies.One thing to note is that while these policies may exist for professional staff at these companies, certain employers choose to offer different benefits to contractual, part-time, hourly workers or other classifications of employees. At law firms, for example, attorneys may be eligible for paid maternity leave while administrative, operational and paralegal staff may have access to a lower level of benefit.A few another thing to note is that many of these companies offer different levels of paternity leave to their employees, or make a designation regarding who is the primary caretaker, which means that one person of a presumed two-person household may be entitled to a longer leave if he/she is the primary ca retaker for the child. Its a gender-neutral term that some employers have chosen to set their parental policy around, rather than plektron a policy for a mother or father of a child.Finally, just as a few employers have chosen to give their employees unlimited paid time off (or PTO), a several (notably Netflix) also offer unlimited paid family leave. This leaves the decision as to time off for maternity or paternity leave with the individual employee and his / her manager. There is obviously no obligation to take any certain period of maternity leave so some employees may come back within a much shorter time than the full potential allotment they are entitled to (in this case 52 weeks in the year following the birth of their child).The Top 180 Employers in 2017 for Paid Maternity LeaveEach of the employers in the below list offer at least 16 weeks of paid maternity leave. If your company is missing from the list or we have incorrect information, please submit an anonymous tip on in our database.Companies That Offer Up To 52 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave1. Netflix2. Bill Melinda Gate FoundationCompanies That Offer 39 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave3. Army(British)Companies That Offer 32 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave4. Automattic, Inc.Companies That Offer 26 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave5. Adobe Systems6. Organizer Inc.7. AO.com8. Etsy9. Spotify10. Worldpay11. ZyngaCompanies That Offer 24 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave12. Open Society Foundations13. eBay Inc.14. Motorola15. ZestFinance16. 72andsunny17. Orrick, Herrington SutcliffeCompanies That Offer 22 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave18. FireEye19. Avaya20. LenovoCompanies That Offer 21 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave21. Mitie22. Intel CorporationCompanies That Offer 20 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave23. Yammer24. Stonyfield Farms25. Winston Strawn26. Microsoft27. Atlasssian28. Google29. Twitter30. leistungspunkt Suisse31. Dropbox32. Amazon33. American Express Company34. Standard Chartered35. Mozilla36. TumblrCompanies That Offer 18 Weeks Pa id Maternity Leave37. Squarespace38. Mailchimp39. Bloomberg40. WilmerHale41. BakerHostetler42. Wilson Sonsini43. CA Technologies44. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld LLP45. Allen Overy46. Baker McKensie47. Arnold Porter48. Bracewell Guiliani49. Brown Rudnick50. Cahill Gordon51. Cadwalader, Wickersham Taft52. Capital One Financial Corporation53. Chadbourne Park LLP54. Cleary Gottlieb55. Clifford Chance56. Cravath, Swaine Moore LLP57. Cooley LLP58. Covington Burling59. Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner LLP60. Davis Polk Wardwell LLP61. Foley Lardner62. Hogan Lovells63. Jenner Block64. Goodwin Proctor65. Linklaters LLP66. Kirkland Ellis67. Jones Day68. Perkins Coie69. Paul Weiss70. Mayer Brown71. Sidley Austin72. Squire Patton73. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman74. Sullivan Cromwell LLP75. Paul Hastings76. Yum Brands, Inc.77. Gunderson Dettmer78. Williams Connelly LLP79. GoDaddy80. YouTube81. McDermott Will Emery82. change.org83. Blizzard Entertainment84. Pepper Hamilton85. Dechert LLP86. Doctors Without BordersCompanies That Offer 17 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave87. Optimizely88. DLA Piper89. Instagram90. Johnson Johnson91. Schlumberger92. Uber93. Opower94. Reddit95. MixpanelCompanies That Offer 16 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave96. Paypal97. Korn Ferry98. Tesla Motors99. Soundcloud100. Facebook101. Palantir102. LOreal Group103. Square104. Zillow105. Hill + Knowlton Strategies106. Quinn Emmanuel107. Accenture108. AllianceBernstein LP109. Avon110. Bain Company111. Bank of America112. Barclays Bank113.Morgan Lewis114. Boston Consulting Group115. Deustche Bank116. Dun Bradstreet117. EY118. Exelon119. Factset Research120. Fish Richardson121. Genentech122. General Electric123. Holland Knight124. IKEA125. JP Morgan Chase126. KPMG127. LinkedIn128. Morgan Stanley129. The New York Times130. Pinterest131. Oracle132. Procter Gamble133. Reed Smith LLP134. SAP135. Sedgwick LLP136. SunTrust Banks137. Suntrust Robinson Humphrey138.Goldman Sachs139. UBS140. United Nations141.Watchell, Lipton, Rosen Katz142. Wells Fargo143. Yahoo144. PIMCO145. Blackstone Group146. Vodafone Group147. Sun Edison148. Airbnb149. Github150. Reckitt Benckiser151. Kickstarter152. The Nation153. Media Math154. Marketo155.The Honest Company156. Proofpoint157. Patagonia158. Booking.com159. Blank Rome160. Applied Materials161. Gamechanger162. Zendesk163. Chegg164. Blue State Digital165. Simple166. Ustwo167. Velir168. Natural Resources Defense Council169. Meetup Inc.170. JustGiving171. Anheuser-Busch172. AXA173. California Certified Organic Farmers174. Intact Financial175. 15Five176. VSCO177. OCH-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC178. Fidelity Investments179. Spring180. Lowenstein Sandler LLP