Facebook is Giving Employees a Month of Paid Sick Leave

Social media giant Facebook is standing up proactively and doing the right thing for its employees during the Coronavirus outbreak.

The company is now offering employees up to a month of paid leave to care for sick family members. Facebook introduced new paid-time off programs that will allow employees to take up to a month away from work to care for sick relatives.

A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed the news to CNCB on Monday. “Facebook understands we are in uncharted territory with the COVID-19 pandemic,” the spokeswoman said. “We want to support our people with navigating their needs during this time. Therefore, we have launched a number of initiatives for our employees and their families.”

The company is offering a paid emergency care leave program that offers 30 working days of leave to employees who need to care for a sick family member, or if they need to travel to another country or state to care for a family member.

Additionally Facebook is offering paid admin leave, which gives employees 20 days of leave for caregiving that can be taken in one-day increments. The company is also allowing workers to “use alternative working hours or go offline in time chunks that work for them without taking” paid-time off.

Most of Facebook’s 45,000 employees are now working from home. The company has given them $1,000 bonuses to spend on their work-from-home setups and costs for childcare.

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