Most federal employees will become eligible Thursday for paid parental ... paid leave will be available only afterward; employees still could take other forms of paid leave instead of unpaid ...

Massachusetts is one of only a dozen states with paid parental leave. (Federal law requires certain employers to offer 12 weeks of unpaid leave ... it may not take the form of expanding the ...

While most employers realize that fathers are parents, too, the majority of U.S. employers offer minimal leave opportunities for mothers and relatively no leave opportunities for fathers.