It’s become standard policy for many companies to offer their female employees paid maternity leave. But do paternity leave policies have to be equally generous when it comes to giving paid time off to new fathers?
Seyfarth Shaw’s Kevin Fritz explores this question in an article posted on lexology.com. The issue was raised by a new father who works at a large entertainment corporation that offers 10 weeks of paid leave to biological mothers but only two for biological fathers. The result was that the man filed charges of discrimination and gender bias.
