Unum adds new benefit that gives employees more paid time off to care for parents, spouses
Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN)
Jan. 30—A routine medical exam last February revealed that
Kevin Flynn needed another brain surgery, which his doctors immediately scheduled two days later.
Flynn's pregnant wife Emily, a leave specialist at Unum's headquarters in
Chattanooga, was forced to juggle her work and child care roles to help her 30-year-old husband, who has congenital hydrocephalus and required his 12th operation to repair a shunt implanted in his brain to help remove excess cerebrospinal fluid.
"When I found out he needed surgery that quickly, it kind of took everyone off guard,"