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- <text id=89TT1516>
- <title>
- June 12, 1989: Business Notes:Benefits
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 12, 1989 Massacre In Beijing
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 51
- Business Notes
- BENEFITS
- Ma Bell's Family Way
- </hdr><body>
- <p> As working couples struggle to meet their family
- responsibilities, they are asking corporate America to lend a
- hand. Last week AT&T agreed to one of the largest expansions of
- family benefits ever achieved in labor negotiations. Under a
- three-year contract covering 160,000 members of its
- communications and electrical unions, AT&T will increase from
- six months to one year the parental leave it offers mothers and
- fathers of newborns. The company will also permit such leaves
- for the care of ailing relatives.
- </p>
- <p> Among other family features: payments of up to $2,000 to
- cover costs when workers adopt children and a $5 million fund
- to help support and establish child-care centers. But the
- benefits were not free. In return for these and other new
- provisions, employees agreed to forgo automatic cost of living
- adjustments.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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