US: Parental, Family Leave Programs See Boost in 2023 SHRM Employee Benefits Survey
SHRM – June 12, 2023
Significant strides have been made in parental leave and family leave benefits programs over the past year, signaling that employers are getting serious about supporting employees in their home lives as well as their work lives, according to the 2023 SHRM Employee Benefits Survey. Paid maternity and paternity leave each saw 5-percentage-point jumps from last year and are now offered by 40 percent and 32 percent of employers, respectively, the new report finds. SHRM Research’s survey of 4,217 HR professionals at organizations across all sizes, industries and sectors was conducted from Jan. 17 to March 8, 2023. Simultaneously, paid parental leave is now offered by roughly 4 in 10 employers (39 percent), a 6-point jump from last year, according to this year’s survey. Paid adoption leave also jumped by 6 percentage points, with about a third of employers (34 percent) now offering it, and paid foster child leave is now offered by 25 percent of employers, representing a 3-percentage-point increase. The findings were released June 12 at the SHRM Annual Conference & Expo 2023 in Las Vegas.
2023 Employee Benefits Survey: https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/trends-and-forecasting/research-and-surveys/Pages/Employee-Benefits-Survey.aspx
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/benefits/pages/shrm-2023-employee-benefits-survey-paid-parental-family-leave.aspx