Many employers provide their employees with adoption benefits, such as paid leave, unpaid leave, or adoption reimbursements. The following article explains the basics of employer adoption benefits.

Adoption Benefits: Employers as Partners in Family Building

The following table shows adoption benefits offered by many employers.

Employer	Some	> $4,000 for single, sibling or special needs	Paid Leave	Unpaid Leave (+ FMLA)	Resource & Referral
AARP	x	x			x
ABB CE Nuclear Power	x	x	x	x
A&B Hawaii					x
Abbott Laboratories	x			x	x
Advanta Corporation	x	x
Advocate Health Care	x	x
Aetna, Inc.	x	x			x
Aetna Life & Casualty	x			x	x
Ag Processing	x	x
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.	x			x
Allegiance Corporation	x				x
Allstate Insurance Company	x		x	x	x
American Express	x				x
American Home Products Corporation	x				x
American International Group	x	x
American Management Systems	x	x		x	x
American Ref-fuel Company	x	x
Ameritech Corp.	x				x
Amgen, Inc.	x		x	x	x
Amoco Corp	x				x
Apex Management Group, The			x
Applied Communications, Inc.	x		x
Arco Chemical Co.					x
Arthur Anderson LLP	x	x	x		x
Arthur O. Little, Inc.					x
Ashland, Inc.	x				x
ASTRA Merck, Inc.	x			x	x
Avon Products, Inc.	x			x	x
A.W. Restaurants, Inc.	x	x
AT&T	x			x	x
Autodesk, Inc.	x		x		x
Bank of America	x	x	x		x
Bank One	x				x
Baptist Health Systems of South Florida	x				x
Barnett Banks	x				x
Basic American Foods	x				x
Baxter Healthcare	x				x
Bayfront-St. Anthony's Health Care	x
BDM International, Inc.	x
BE&K Engineering and Construction	x
Bell Atlantic	x	x		x	x
Bell South Corporation	x			x	x
Beneficial Corp.	x				x
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.	x		x		x
Bergen Brunswig Corporation	x				x
Best Foods	x
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center					x
Black Entertainment Television Holdings, Inc.				x
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts	x				x
Bon Secours Richmond Health System					x
Book of The Month Club, Inc.	x	x
Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.			x		x
Borden, Inc.	x	x
Boston Scientific Corp.	x	x
Brentwood Services, Inc.	x	x		x
Bristol-Myers Squibb	x				x
Bryn Mawr Rehab			x		x
Builders Square	x	x
Bureau of National Affairs, The	x
Calvert Group, LTD	x	x	x		x
Calvin College	x	x
Campbell Soup Company	x			x
Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.	x
Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital	x		x
Ceridian Corporation	x				x
Channing L. Bete Co., Inc.	x	x	x		x
Chase Manhattan Corp.	x	x	x		x
Chester County Hospital, The	x
Chevron Corporation	x	x		x	x
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)	x				x
Chrysler Corporation	x			x	x
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, The	x				x
CIGNA Corporation	x			x	x
Cinergy	x			x	x
CIT Group Inc., The	x	x			x
Citizens Bank	x	x	x
City of Plano, TX	x	x
City of Richardson, TX	x	x
CMP Publications	x	x	x	x
Coach Leatherware	x		x
Coca-Cola Company, The	x	x			x
Colgate-Palmolive Company	x	x
Columbia/HCA	x
Comerica Incorporated				x	x
Computer Horizons Corp.	x
ComputerWorld, Inc.				x	x
Conde Nast Publications, Inc.	x		x
Consolidated Edison of NY	x			x
Consolidated Rail Corporation	x		x		x
Control Data Systems, Inc.	x				x
Coopers & Lybrand	x	x			x
Coors Brewing Company	x
Corning Incorporated	x		x	x
Cranston Print Works				x
Crozer-Chester Medical Center				x	x
CSC Consulting & Systems Integration	x		x		x
CVS	x				x
Cytec Industries Inc.	x
DaimlerChrysler Corp.	x	x			x
Dakota State University			x
Dartmouth College	x
Data General Corp.	x
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption	x	x	x
Dayton Hudson Corp	x
DDB Needham Worldwide (Chicago Division)	x		x		x
Deere & Company				x
Deloitte & Touche	x	x	x		x
Delta Air Lines	x	x
Delta Dental of Pennsylvania				x
Deutsche Bank	x	x	x		x
Dial Corporation	x			x
The Walt Disney Company	x
Dispatch Printing Company, The	x	x
Dominion Energy	x	x
Domino's Pizza	x	x	x
Donnelly Corporation	x
Dow Chemical Company, The	x	x	x
Duke Power	x			x
DuPage County, IL	x		x
DuPont	x		x	x	x
DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company	x	x	x
Duquesne Light Company			x
Eastman Chemical	x
Eastman Kodak Co.	x			x	x
Eaton Corporation			x
ECS Companies, The	x
Eddie Bauer	x		x		x
EDS	x				x
Elf Atochem North America, Inc.					x
Elk Promotions, Inc.	x
Elmhurst College			x
EMC Corporation	x	x			x
Ernst & Young	x	x		x	x
Eisenberg, Alan D., Attorney	x	x		x	x
Fannie Mae	x	x	x		x
Ferris, Baker, Watts, Inc.	x	x
Fidelity Investments	x	x		x	x
First Bank Systems	x
First Chicago NBD Corporation	x				x
First Tennessee Bank					x
First Union Corporation			x		x
Flagstar Companies	x		x
Fleet Financial Group	x	x	x		x
FMC Corporation	x	x			x
Ford Motor Co.				x	x
Forman Distributing of Virginia				x
Frankford Hospital					x
Freddie Mac	x	x			x
Frito-Lay	x	x			x
Gallup Organization, The	x		x
Gannett Company, Inc.	x				x
The GAP Inc.	x				x
Gateway 2000	x
Genentech, Inc.	x	x			x
General Accident Insurance	x	x			x
General Electric Co.	x				x
General Mills, Inc.	x
General Motors Corporation				x	x
General Motors/Saturn Corp.	x			x	x
Glaxo Wellcome, Inc.	x	x			x
Glen Cove School District				x
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., The	x
Gorden Flesch Company, Inc.	x
Grant Riverside Methodist Hospital	x		x
GTE Corp.	x				x
GTE Telephone Operations	x				x
GTech Corporation	x
G.T. Water Products, Inc.	x			x
Gymboree Corp			x		x
Hallmark Cards, Inc.	x			x
Hanna Anderson	x		x
Harcourt General, Inc.	x				x
Harris Bank	x				x
Harvard University	x		x	x	x
Hasbro, Inc.	x	x	x	x	x
Hatfield Quality Meats	x			x
Hearst Corporation, The	x
Henkel Corp.	x			x
Hennepin Parks			x
Hercules Inc.	x		x
Hewitt Associates	x	x			x
Hewlett-Packard Company	x			x	x
Hill, Holiday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc.			x		x
Hoechst Celanese Corporation	x			x	x
Hoffmann-LaRoche	x	x			x
Holt International Children's Services	x
Home Box Office	x	x
Home Depot	x				x
Household International	x				x
Hughes Aircraft Company					x
Hunt Manufacturing Co.					x
IBM Corporation	x		x	x	x
Imation	x				x
Intermetrics	x
International Brotherhood of Teamsters			x
International Game Technology	x		x
Investors Fiduciary Trust Co.	x	x
ITT Hartford	x			x
JFK Medical Center	x
JM Family Enterprises, Inc.	x			x
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company	x			x	x
John Hopkins University	x	x
Johnson & Johnson	x			x	x
S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.	x
Edward Jones	x		x		x
Kellogg Foundation, W.K.	x		x
Kemper National Insurance Companies				x
Kmart Corporation	x	x
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP	x	x			x
Lancaster Laboratories, Inc.	x				x
Lehman Brothers, Inc.			x
Leo Burnett U.S.A.	x				x
Lexmark International	x	x			x
Licking Memorial Health System	x
Life Technologies, Inc.	x		x		x
Eli Lilly and Co.	x	x	x		x
Limited, Inc., The	x	x
Lincoln Financial Group	x	x	x		x
Little Caesar's	x	x
Little Rapids Corporation	x
Loews Corporation				x	x
Loomis, Sayles & Company, LP	x	x	x
Lotus Development Corp.	x		x		x
LSI Logic Corporation	x		x		x
LucasFilm Ltd.			x
Lucent Technologies	x			x	x
Maine General Health	x
Marquette Bank, N.A./Pohlad Banking Group	x	x
Marquette Electronics, Inc.			x
Marriott International, Inc.					x
MassMutual	x
Mattel, Inc.	x	x			x
MBNA America Bank, NA	x	x	x	x	x
McDonald's Corporation	x		x
Mentor Graphics	x	x		x	x
Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc.	x	x		x
Merck & Co, Inc.					x
Mercy General Health Partners	x
Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc.	x	x	x		x
Miami Herald, The			x		x
Microsoft, Inc.	x	x	x		x
Midamerican Energy Company	x	x
Millipore Corporation	x	x	x		x
Milton Hershey School	x	x		x
3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing)	x
Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America, Inc.	x				x
Mobil Inc.	x				x
Monsanto Co.	x	x		x	x
Morgan, J.P.	x	x	x		x
Morrison & Foerster			x		x
Motorola	x	x		x	x
Mount Carmel Health System	x
Musco Corp.	x	x	x
Mutual of New York (MONY)	x				x
Mutual of Omaha Companies, Inc.					x
Nabisco, Inc.	x				x
National Adoption Center	x			x	x
National Futures Association	x	x	x	x
National Life of Vermont	x		x
NationsBank			x	x	x
NCR Corporation	x			x	x
NE Electric					x
Nellie Mae, Inc.	x
Nestle	x	x	x		x
Neuville Industries, Inc.			x
Newly Weds Foods, Inc.	x	x	x	x
New York Life Insurance Company	x			x	x
Nike, Inc.	x				x
Nordstrom	x				x
Northern States Power Company	x
Northern Trust Corp.	x				x
Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	x		x		x
NYNEX	x
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center, Inc.)	x
Oracle Corporation					x
Owens Corning	x	x			x
Pacific Bell	x			x	x
Pacific Gas & Electric	x				x
Partnership Group Inc., The	x				x
Patagonia, Inc.	x		x	x	x
Payless Cashways, Inc.	x
Penn Virginia Corporation			x
PepsiCo	x	x
The Perkin Elmer Corporation	x	x
Pfizer, Inc.	x	x		x	x
Phoenix Home Life Mutual Life Insurance Co.	x	x	x		x
Pillsbury Company, The	x
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.	x
Pitney Bowes	x
PMA Group, The	x
PNC Bank	x
Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc.	x	x
PPG	x
Press-Telegram	x			x
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP	x	x	x		x
Primavera Systems, Inc.	x	x
Principal Financial Group, The	x
Procter and Gamble	x		x		x
Providence Gas Company	x			x
Providence Hospital	x		x
Providence Journal Co.				x
Prudential Insurance Company of America	x	x		x	x
Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G)	x	x		x	x
Quad/Graphics	x	x			x
Qualcomm, Inc.	x
QuickTrip Corp.	x	x	x		x
Ravenswood Health Care Corporation	x	x			x
Reader's Digest Assoc., Inc.	x			x
Red Wing Shoe Company	x
Resort Condominiums International, Inc. (RCI)	x			x
Rex Healthcare	x	x			x
Rhone-Poulenc, Inc.	x				x
Ridgeview, Inc.			x		x
Rockwell International	x				x
Roger Williams University				x
Rohm and Haas Company	x			x
RSL					x
Ryder System, Inc.	x
St. Mary's Medical Center (MI)	x
St. Mary's Medical Center (MN)	x		x
St. Paul Companies, The	x		x		x
St. Petersburg Times	x
St. Raphael Healthcare System (CT)			x
Salomon Brothers Inc.	x		x
Sara Lee Corporation	x		x	x	x
SAS Institute	x	x	x
SBC Communications, Inc.	x			x
Schering-Plough Corporation				x	x
Scripps Co., The E.W.	x
SCT Corporation					x
Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.	x	x	x		x
The Seattle Times Company					x
Security Benefit Group	x				x
SEI Investments	x				x
Sensormatic Electronics Corp.	x
Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.	x	x	x		x
ServiStar Corporation	x		x	x
7-Eleven Stores/The Southland Corp.			x
Shaw Industries	x	x
Shipley Company	x		x		x
Silicon Graphics	x	x			x
Simon & Shuster	x				x
Sisters of Charity Health Systems	x	x
Smith Barney	x		x	x
Smith College			x	x
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceutical Co.	x
SNET	x			x	x
Southwest Airlines	x				x
Spiegel, Inc.	x		x
Sprint	x
Stanford University				x	x
Stanley Works, The	x	x
Star Lumber & Supply Co., Inc.				x
State Farm Insurance	x	x			x
State of Montana			x
State of New York				x
State of North Dakota			x	x
State of Pennsylvania				x
State of North Carolina	x	x	x
State of Utah	x
State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio	x	x
Storage Technology Corporation	x
The Stride Rite Corp	x	x	x		x
Subaru of America	x	x
Sun Microsystems, Inc.	x				x
SunTrust Bank, Inc.	x				x
Superior Coffee and Foods	x	x			x
Supervalu, Inc.	x
Tandem Computers, Inc.	x		x	x	x
Target Stores	x			x
Tenet Healthcare Corporation	x				x
Texaco, Inc.	x				x
Texas Instruments	x	x			x
TIAA-CREF					x
Tom's of Maine, Inc.			x	x
Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.	x	x	x
Trans-Financial	x	x
Triconex Corporation	x	x	x
TRW, Inc.	x	x			x
Unisys				x
United Parcel Service	x	x
United States Surgical Corporation	x		x
United Technologies	x				x
Universal Studios, Inc.	x	x	x		x
University of Oklahoma			x
University of South Carolina	x	x	x		x
University of Wyoming			x
Upjohn Company, The	x			x
USAA	x	x			x
U S West, Inc.	x			x	x
Valassis Communications, Inc.	x	x	x		x
Vanguard Group Inc., The	x			x	x
Viacom	x		x
Victory Memorial Hospital	x
VLSI Technology	x				x
Voucher Corporation, The	x				x
Wal-Mart Corporation			x	x
Warner-Lambert Company	x	x			x
Watson Wyatt Worldwide	x			x
Wells Fargo Bank					x
Wendy's International, Inc.	x	x	x
Roy F. Weston, Inc.	x				x
Weyerhaeuser	x				x
Whirlpool Corporation	x	x
Women & Infants Hospital				x
Woodman of the World Life Insurance			x
WFD, Inc.	x		x		x
World Financial Properties.			x
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.	x		x	x
Wyeth-Ayerst	x
Xerox Corporation	x				x
Zeneca, Inc.					x
This information was provided by the National Adoption Center.
The FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act of 1993) gives an employee the right to take a leave of absence for family and medical reasons. It requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave and a continuation of benefits without jeopardizing employment.

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