Paternity leave

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The restaurant chain is rolling out new benefits for corporate employees and may consider extending them to food service staff.

Parents will now be entitled to a total of 16 weeks of time off.

Benefits that specifically target working mothers can have a profound impact on the employee and the business.

The total amount of families’ daily allowance days would increase from 11.5 months to more than 14 months, with both parents receiving an equal quota of 164 days.

“When it comes to leave, there is still an opportunity to meet the specific needs of your population,” says LuAnn Heinen, vice president at Business Group on Health.

Careers with a high number of men, like finance and technology, are much more likely to get paid time off to care for newborns than those in other female-populated industries, like healthcare and retail.

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