Episode 40: Time to Bond: Discussing Parental Leave Policy with Anni Evans
PSHRA's Public Eye PodcastShow Notes
Anni Evans, director of human resources with the Town of Bluffton in South Carolina, recently wrote an article on the Town’s recently implemented parental leave policy for the September/October edition of PSHRA’s Public Eye, the Association’s bi-monthly digital publication available only to PSHRA members.
On the heels of that article, Anni joined our Public Eye podcast to discuss that policy a bit further.
In July of this year, the Town of Bluffton received approval from the town council to offer paid parental leave to its 140-plus full-time employees. And Anni told us a little bit about why Bluffton wanted to offer paid parental leave to all of its new parents, the role that she and her HR team played in designing that leave policy, and the advice she would offer other agencies looking to do the same.
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