This week's Substack: How to pay parental leave in multiple states

Now more than ever, the US feels like 50 different countries.

So how do you make decisions with so many competing laws and interests?

To state the obvious: When you mess with people’s rights, sh*t gets real.

And there are IRL consequences when you get the balance wrong.

Writing a parental leave policy (or any policy that applies across a variety of situations, for that matter) for a distributed team is like that.

You’re making decisions that will affect people’s families.

Their livelihoods.

Their physical and emotional limitations.

And at a time when they’re likely to be crankier and less tolerant of errors than usual.

This week’s Substack breaks down how to actually write a multi-state parental leave policy without triggering a mutiny.

Each week, I share tips for how to actually navigate People Ops and HR topics like compliance, benefits, payroll, and process design.

Written for real people who live in the real world and want to avoid the real problems that happen when you get it wrong.

Subscribe if you want. Share if it’s helpful. Add your thoughts in the comments, if you have them.

Recent Posts