All other corporate employees can take 12 weeks paid time off after the arrival of a child, including fathers, adoptive and foster parents. Hourly workers? Yum Brands only gives paid leave to corporate full-timers; not to workers in its fast-food restaurants, according to PLUS’s data. Paid leave inequality is something that labor groups are starting to pay more attention to, said Brianna Cayo Cotter, chief of staff at Paid Leave U.S. “The people that most need paid leave benefits are the ones being left out of these policies,” said Cotter. “There is not a difference between [a corporate worker’s] baby and the barista’s baby.

Source: Huffington Post March 23, 2017 18:27 UTC