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Virginia Tech approved an eight-week paid parental leave benefit for both mothers and fathers working at the college, during a quarterly meeting last week.
The university’s new parental leave is offered to more than 7,000 salaried employees in the six months following the arrival of a new child through birth, adoption or foster placement, and will be paid at 100% of the employee’s regular salary. The new benefit went into effect June 25.
“Virginia Tech had been working to implement a similar enhancement to our many family-friendly benefits for university faculty,”...