A new report on paid family leave finds many Americans who could most benefit from such policies are left out in the cold by large corporations.
Headlines in recent years have highlighted companies which expanded family leave benefits to attract and retain workers, but the study, conducted by Paid Leave for the United States (PL+US), finds such generous policies are confined to a relatively small number of Americans.
Salaried workers, the report finds, are indeed seeing expanded family leave policies, but the many hourly-wage workers lower on the corporate ladder are often not included in such benefits.
An elite benefit
“In the United States today paid family leave is an elite benefit: 94 percent of low-income working people have no access to paid family leave,” the report says, drawing on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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