General Mills Adds More Leave for New Moms and Other Parents
- Changes make benefits competitive among large U.S. employers
- Company is also adding leave for family caregiving, grief
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Starting next year, General Mills Inc. will bump its paid maternity and parental leave offerings to match some of the more generous big employers in the U.S.
All new parents at the food giant will be eligible for 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a newborn, and birth mothers will get an additional six to eight weeks of maternity leave. Under the old policy, General Mills gave two weeks of parental leave and six weeks of maternity leave.