Companies across the US are finally getting wise to a simple concept: Hey, it might be a good idea to give new parents paid time off. Genius, right?
But the trend isn’t benefiting everyone equally, Bloomberg reports. In some industries, women and low-income workers dominate — and those sectors offer little or no time off.
The advocacy group Paid Leave for the United States started tracking paid-leave policies in 2016. Since then, the picture has improved:
But the group’s new report breaks paid-leave policies down by sector, and for some workers, paid leave is a pipe dream:
What’s the solution? A federal paid-leave program (which the US still doesn’t have) would help. The idea is catching on in Congress, but — surprise! — Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on how to implement it.