Ep 17 – What Every Small Business Owner Should Know About Paid Leave

Show Notes

So you want to offer your team members paid family and medical leave? Yeah, good luck with that.

The few government programs that exist to help businesses support paid leave policies often don’t apply to small businesses. So, owners who want to provide paid leave are left to cobble together solutions and policies of their own.

Kate discusses the historical context of paid leave in the US, including the lack of national policies compared to other countries and the challenges businesses face in providing adequate leave. She examines three critical components of creating a paid leave policy: profitability, system documentation, and policy consistency.

Offering paid leave isn’t easy, but it’s a huge opportunity for businesses to rise to their potential as systems of care.

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