Family Leave Rights and Employee Resilience

Keith William Diener ()
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Keith William Diener: Stockton University

Chapter Chapter 20 in The Palgrave Handbook of Change and Resilience at Work, 2025, pp 425-441 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There are few changes in life so significant as having children. This chapter examines the impact of family leave rights on employee resilience. The chapter begins with a comparative overview of family leave rights in the United States and other countries. It reveals that the United States is dramatically behind other developed countries when it comes to permitting employees with time off work and benefits when having children. The chapter overviews the many changes that take place when an employee has a child and suggests that the insufficiency of family leave rights in the United States has a direct impact on employee resilience in the workplace. The chapter concludes that United States’ family leave rights need expansion to provide more comprehensive benefits to employees who choose to have children. Unless and until that happens, United States’ employers should implement expansive family leave policies to fill the gaps in benefit coverage and to promote employee resilience.

Keywords: Paid family leave; Employee resilience; New parents; Bonding; Employee benefits; New parents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-91493-5_20

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