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Thinking about updating your company leave policy?
Thinking about updating your company leave policy?
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Written by Cocoon Support
Updated over a week ago

Are you thinking about changing your company’s leave policy? If that’s the case, you’ll need to provide the following information to Cocoon. Please complete the following required tables and send the information to [email protected].

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For parental leave policy changes:

Please enter how much time you will be offering for birthing and non-birthing parents in the ‘time’ column below. In the ‘pay’ column, enter how long you top up at 100% of pay.

Time

Pay

Birthing parents

Non-birthing parents

Do you have a tenure requirement?

Tenure

Yes / No

If yes, what is your tenure requirement?

If yes, is any employer paid time available to non-tenured employees?

Do you require a minimum length of time off during bonding?

Bonding requirement

Yes / No

If yes, what is the required minimum length of time off during bonding?

Policy change details

When does this new policy go into effect?

Should this new policy impact all ongoing leaves? If no, are there any specific ongoing leaves that should use the new policy?

Are there any exceptions?

Has the change been communicated internally?

For medical leave policy changes:

Does your company have a medical leave policy? This is considered to be any company time and/or pay offered outside of what is required by state and federal law. Please indicate in the fields below:

Company medical leave policy:

Time:

Pay:

Tenure

Yes / No

If yes, what is your tenure requirement?

If yes, is any employer paid time available to non-tenured employees?

Policy change details

When does this new policy go into effect?

Should this new policy impact all ongoing leaves? If no, are there any specific ongoing leaves that should use the new policy?

Are there any exceptions?

Has the change been communicated internally?

For caregiver leave policy changes:

Does your company have a caregiver leave policy? This is considered to be any company time & pay offered outside of what is required by state and federal law. If yes, fill out the fields below. Please note that even if you do not have a caregiver policy, Cocoon can still administer caregiver leaves for you by showing federal and state entitlements.

Company caregiver leave policy:

Time:

Pay:

Tenure

Yes / No

If yes, what is your tenure requirement?

If yes, is any employer paid time available to non-tenured employees?

Which relationships are considered covered under your company policy? Check all that apply. Note: Cocoon will administer caregiver leave according to federal / state laws. Learn more about caregiver leave laws here.

Spouse

Domestic partner

Grandparent

Parent

Parent-in-law

Sibling

Child

Grandchild

Designated person

Policy change details

When does this new policy go into effect?

Should this new policy impact all ongoing leaves? If no, are there any specific ongoing leaves that should use the new policy?

Are there any exceptions?

Has the change been communicated internally?

Once you’ve completed the applicable table, please send the information to [email protected]. We’ll follow up after reviewing the information.


Any questions? Please reach out to the Support team at [email protected]

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