Some, like Facebook Inc., say they offer all their employees the same amount of paid parental leave. But many other companies, like Wells Fargo & Co. and Uber Technologies Inc., use a system akin to JPMorgan’s, with more leave for parents who will be the “primary” caregiver of a new child than to those who will be “secondary.”
JPMorgan Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon told shareholders in April that last year it increased the amount of paid leave it provides “non-primary parental caregivers” from two weeks to six.
Companies would be better off just ditching the distinctions, said Peter Romer-Friedman, one of Rotondo’s lawyers. Providing all new parents the same amount of leave is a simpler and superior approach: “It’s easier to administer, and it doesn’t import the stereotypes or the distinctions that our society has artificially set.”
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