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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