Apple is improving employee benefits to try to attract and retain workers

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Apple is reportedly improving employee benefits.
Improvements to sick pay apply to both full and part-time employees.
Part-time employees are now getting vacation days for the first time.

Apple is reportedly improving its employee benefits in an attempt to both attract and retain workers in a market that continues to get more competitive.

According to a new Bloomberg report, Apple is now offering 12 paid sick days — a doubling of the previous 6 days that were previously available to employees. Apple is also allowing those days to be used for mental health leave as well as caring for sick family members.

Alongside sick days Apple is now giving part-time workers paid vacation time, offering up to six days per year. Vacation time will also now be available to employees after three years on the job — an improvement over the previous five-year requirement.

Now on @theterminal: Apple is significantly upping benefits for part time and full time U.S. retail employees amid a tightening labor market and Covid. That includes more paid sick time, vacation time and parental leave for part timers, and more beginning April 4th.Now on @theterminal: Apple is significantly upping benefits for part time and full time U.S. retail employees amid a tightening labor market and Covid. That includes more paid sick time, vacation time and parental leave for part timers, and more beginning April 4th.— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) February 8, 2022 February 8, 2022

Businesses have continued to struggle to recruit workers since the pandemic first began with staff shortages affecting all manner of industries with tech being far from the only one affected. However, companies like Apple are now working to ensure that they are an attractive proposition to the best workers at a time where demand is high.

Apple's employee benefits now include up to six weeks of paid parental leave while those who are part-time workers will now get discounted childcare, too.

Apple's new worker benefits will kick in from April 4 so are still a couple of months away from being brought into effect.

Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.