Liz Reiner Platt is a Law Fellow at A Better Balance, a national legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing fair and family-friendly laws and workplace policies.
Liz Reiner Platt
Liz Reiner Platt is a Law Fellow at A Better Balance, a national legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing fair and family-friendly laws and workplace policies.
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November 20, 2013
Cross-posted from A Better Balance's Blog. At first, Josh Levs thought his employer’s policy on paid family leave was a simple mistake. His company, Time Warner, offers new mothers ten weeks of paid time off after giving birth. Women and men who have children through adoption or surrogacy also receive ten weeks of paid leave to bond with a new child. Biological fathers, on the other hand, only receive two weeks of paid leave. When Levs pointed out this discrepancy to his supervisor before the birth of his daughter, he realized that it was not an oversight at all. His boss refused to give him...
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