GITNUX MARKETDATA REPORT 2024

Paid Family Leave Approval Time Statistics

On average, it takes approximately 30 days for approval of Paid Family Leave.

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"In organizations that offered paid family leave in 2020, the average maximum amount of leave provided was 15 weeks."

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"California’s paid family leave program has doubled the median duration of breastfeeding for all new mothers who use it."

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"58% of Human Resources professionals reported that the administration of paid family and medical leave is problematic for their organizations."

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"Of the individuals who experienced a family leave event between 2011 and 2013, 46% were unable to take leave or cut their leave short due to inability to afford leave."

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"One in five U.S. workers are ineligible for FMLA leave because of its strict eligibility requirements."

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"New York’s paid family leave law provides up to 12 weeks of paid leave to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child."

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"About 13% of U.S. workers have access to paid family leave through their employers."

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"In a survey, 83% of Democrats and 71% of Republicans expressed support for paid family leave."

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"Adoptive parents, on average, receive one week less of paid family leave than biological parents."

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"Two-thirds of people who take leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) receive no pay during their time off work."

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"When fathers take two or more weeks off after childbirth, they are significantly more likely to engage in caregiving activities with their child nine months after birth."

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"Fathers are 15% more likely to take paternity leave if their coworkers have previously taken it."

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"Women who report taking paid leave are more likely to be working nine to twelve months after a child's birth than those who report taking no leave at all."

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"Almost half of top U.S. employers enhanced their paid family-leave benefits in the past four years."

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"One of the world's longest paid family leaves is in Estonia, where parents are entitled to 85 weeks of paid leave."

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"Men take shorter leaves and are less likely than women to take leave for family-related reasons."

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"Paid family leave could reduce child-care costs for parents by billions and raise labor force participation of mothers."

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