Baby sleeping As of 2017, only 15percent of U.S. workers got any paid family leave, according to theBureau of Labor Statistics, up from 11 percent in 2012. (Photo:Shutterstock)

Starting next year, General Mills Inc. will bump its paidmaternity and parental leave offerings to match some of themore generous big employers in the U.S.

All new parents at the food giant will be eligible for 12 weeksof paid time off to care for a newborn, and birth mothers will getan additional six to eight weeks of maternity leave. Under the old policy, GeneralMills gave two weeks of parental leave and six weeks of maternityleave.

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