Monday, April 30, 2018

Paid Parental Leave Fight Coming to the New York City Council


By Jeff Coltin

The New York City Council is hoping to pressure Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration to provide a paid family leave policy to all public employees, in a city where just 7 percent of municipal workers are guaranteed time off after the birth of a child. It’s the latest salvo in an ongoing push by unons to get the benefit for their members.

The New York City Council Committees on Education and Civil Service and Labor are holding a joint hearing on Monday afternoon to hear from municipal employees testifying on the issue.

Starting in 2016, de Blasio introduced six weeks of fully paid time off for mothers or fathers having or adopting a new child. But that only applied to some 20,000 managerial employees out of the city’s full-time workforce of approximately 300,000. 

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Source: City & State New York (via Empire Report New York) 

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