Parental leave laws are everywhere these days, it seems, with 4.8 million people now having access to better paid leave benefits. It's not just new moms, either. Dads are also being given a chance to stay home with their new baby, and to do so for longer periods of time—although typically it's just been full-timers or salaried workers who have that opportunity. But that's changing too, as 2018 saw more companies broaden the reach of parental leave benefits to allow more classes of workers to take advantage of the option. By the end of the year, more than half of the 57 largest employers tracked by paid leave advocacy organization PL+US offered the same amount of leave time to all classes of employees Related: 10 countries with the most parental leave In a tight job market, companies are warming to other family-friendly measures, too, and looking for ways to attract and retain workers. Some organizations are willing to go pretty far to make their employees happy by making their family life easier. Check out the slideshow above to learn 10 ways that imaginative employers are accommodating their workers' need for more family time. Read more: |

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