Ikea’s new parental leave policy is sweet (and Swedish)
IKEA US announced on Tuesday that effective January 1, 2017 it will offer a new parental leave policy for workers who are expanding their families, providing up to four months of paid parental leave. The announcement comes a little more than a month after IKEA broke ground on its Jacksonville location. The new policy includes salaried and hourly workers, both mothers and fathers, and adoptive and foster parents.
Key Takeaways:
- Ikea will ring in the New Year on Jan. 1 by granting 14,000 workers — salaried and hourly — up to four paid months of parental leave. That’s mothers and fathers who are birth, foster or adoptive parents.
- The policy shift is a huge and welcome change to Ikea’s previous parental leave program for its U.S. workers.
- According to the Associated Press, the old policy granted just five days of paid leave to new parents, then up to eight weeks of paid disability leave for new mothers.
“Ikea will ring in the New Year on Jan. 1 by granting 14,000 workers — salaried and hourly — up to four paid months of parental leave.”