Starbucks Follows New Standard Set by Wal-Mart on Paid Leave
- Non-birth parents among hourly workers will gain 6 weeks paid
- ‘Changes calculus for companies competing with Wal-Mart’
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Less than two weeks after Wal-Mart Stores Inc. added paid family leave for all employees, Starbucks Corp. Wednesday expanded paid parental leave to most of its hourly workers and granted them paid sick days for the first time.
Starbucks’ new benefits, which affect about 150,000 workers, give non-birth parents up to six weeks paid time off for the first time. Like Wal-Mart, which is the largest private employer in the U.S., Starbucks also announced raises for employees on the heels of a U.S. corporate tax cut.