{"id":37078,"date":"2011-06-26T09:28:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T14:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=37078"},"modified":"2011-11-02T01:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T06:20:47","slug":"international-comparison-of-work-leave-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/26\/international-comparison-of-work-leave-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"International Comparison of Work Leave Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolores R. sent us a link to some graphics at Mother Jones<\/a><\/em> about work and income. There are a lot of different topics covered, but I thought I’d highlight their inclusion of some maps generated by the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy<\/a>, which gathers international data on government policies about work and family, such as requirements for paid parental leave.<\/p>\n

This map shows how much weekly time off from work national governments have guaranteed workers (16 nations require none):<\/p>\n

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Of course, some nations, like the U.S., don’t regulate whether hourly-wage workers must have a day off each week but require they be paid at a higher rate if they work more than a certain number of hours (40 is usually the magic number in the U.S.), though this often doesn’t really apply to salaried workers, who aren’t paid by the hour.<\/p>\n

Here’s paid annual leave (9 nations have none):<\/p>\n

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Paid maternity leave (6 nations have none):<\/p>\n

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The McGill Institute has interactive maps that let you compare global policies on a number of family-work balance issues. You can get global maps, such as these, or compare specific countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dolores R. sent us a link to some graphics at Mother Jones about work and income. There are a lot of different topics covered, but I thought I’d highlight their inclusion of some maps generated by the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy, which gathers international data on government policies about work and family, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[260,272,76],"class_list":["post-37078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-international-comparisons","tag-marriagefamily","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41261,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37078\/revisions\/41261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}