Company will offer tiered benefit to all full-time workers after one year of service
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Erin Moran, Union Square Hospitality Group chief culture officer, said full-time employees of at least a year’s tenure will be eligible for paid parental leave. Photo: Melissa Hom
Union Square Hospitality Group, the 13-restaurant New York City operator, will expand paid parental leave companywide to full-time workers of more than a year’s tenure as of Jan. 1, 2017, the company said Wednesday.
Erin Moran, USHG chief culture officer, said the program was piloted last year in the corporate office. It offers four weeks of 100-percent of base wages (40 hours or salary) for the first four weeks, and a second four weeks at 60-percent of base wages. Full-time employees of at least a year’s tenure will be eligible, she said.
The benefit is open to mothers, fathers and domestic partners for births and adoption, she said.
“It was important to us that we offer the same benefit to our hourly team members as to our salaried team m...
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