House Passes Mississippi State Employees Paid Parental Leave  Jackson, MS – Speaker Jason White issues the following ...

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The Mississippi House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to give parents paid parental leave. Similar legislation ...

The Mississippi State Employees Paid Parental Leave Act would provide state employees eight weeks of 100% paid leave as the primary caregiver after the birth or adoption of a child and two weeks for ...

Mississippi's government employees are one step closer to having eight weeks of paid parental leave, which is currently not offered. On Thursday afternoon, the Mississippi House of Representatives ...

But now more than ever, America needs to learn from peer countries that have a long history of paid parental leave to design policies that lighten American parents' crushing workloads. One of the ...

For example, Norway allocates 15 weeks of parental leave exclusively for dads - and it is paid at more than 90% of the average salary. In the UK, less than a fifth of the average salary is paid.

Time was when working males in Japan rarely, if ever, took parental leave so as not to impose a burden on their colleagues while they were absent. But that has changed radically in recent years ...

“With our fellow southern states offering some form of parental leave, and Mississippi currently offering no paid parental leave to their state employees, we too can reflect our commitment to the well ...