Richard Branson has recently announced that Virgin Management will offer a shared leave policy that offers an unprecedented 52 weeks of fully paid time off for eligible employees with new children, regardless of gender or adoption status.
Richard Branson has just announced that employees at Virgin Management will have access to a shared parental leave policy that offers full pay for up to one year.
Eligible staff include both men and women as well as parents of newly adopted kids.
This exceeds the standards the U.K. government enacted in April, which allows for up to 50 weeks of shared leave, 37 of which are eligible to be paid.
It is also better than most companies which generally do not offer benefits for new dads, par
