21. "I forgot to mention - my company lets either the mom or dad " In response to In response to 0 Tue Feb-23-16 10:34 AM by soulfunk
take the full parental leave time off of 3 months. You just declare who is the primary caregiver and that person gets the full time. The secondary caregiver gets 3 weeks unless you also use PTO like I did.
In my case, both my wife and I work for the same company so I was listed as secondary and took the shorter time off. But I know some men who took the full time off while their wives also took full time off because they worked for separate companies, and there isn't really a rule against that.
Is that something that other companies also do or is it a separate maternal and paternal leave?