Paid Family Leave

Sometimes reality is too real for Hollywood and the culture machine, as was demonstrated when ABC and the Academy decided not to air an ad dealing straightforwardly with the reality of postpartum life. The ad for Frida Mom, a retailer in the baby and new mother field, depicted a women confronting in a realistic manner the stress and changes that occur for new mothers.

Who should foot the bill or take responsibility for social reproduction as more women were pressed into the workforce, government or the individual? In the US, the answer was resounding: the individual. And this has had significant consequences for working parents since. By placing the responsibility on the individual, almost always the mother, parents have been in a bind for decades and any "choices" available reside in an astonishingly thin sliver of options constrained by structural inequalities

More than 125,600 New Yorkers used Paid Family Leave in 2018. Learn more about upcoming changes to the program, and from the largest US study on Paid Family Leave.

Access to paid parental leave is often difficult, and unequal between mothers and fathers. Learn more on how we can help bridge the gap.

Laurie Berke-Weiss and Alex Berke were quoted in a recent Law360 article about minimizing legal risk for employers around parental leave issues.

Rosa Aliberti and Alex Berke were published in the November 2017 edition of the Woman Advocate, the American Bar Association's newsletter for women litigators.

Laurie Berke-Weiss was quoted in a recent New York Times article on on paid family leave for nannies. Check out the full article.

As employers and employees across New York State get ready for New York State’s Paid Family leave to go into effect on January 1st, public employees who are not covered by the law are looking on in frustration.

8 questions to ask your employer to better understand your parental leave options.

Laurie Berke-Weiss and Alex Berke discuss paid family leave on the Akerman WorkedUp Podcast.

Read between the lines of Trump's paid family leave plan and what it could mean for employees and employers.

Employers and employees who have questions about parental leave should talk to an experienced labor and employment law attorney. Learn how we can help.