City Hall Eyeing Paid Maternity Leave For Workers

Chicago Sun-Times :

It looks like City Hall may be emerging from the Dark Ages when it comes to offering paid maternity leave to pregnant women.

Tucked away in the memo from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's chief of staff about the sweeping review of employee leave policies currently under way is one line that's likely to warm the hearts of thousands of women on the city payroll.

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Comments

[lightbulb10]

04:14 PM on 07/13/2011

It's funny that he references his family as qualifiers sometimes...

because it's nice, pediatricians are nice, and then there's this slew of info that says these men have not behaved as if they've been reared by a pediatrician... at least the ones in the news.

[rwextthoughts]

01:16 PM on 07/13/2011

what BS ....Most private sector firms DO NOT provide PAID LEAVE

this is typical tax entitle spend unionista intimidation

When the paid leave laws ( which I support ) were passed , there was an immediate prediction that the libs would now try and steal , er, mandate PAID LEAVES

[mratcheson]

11:18 AM on 07/13/2011

I can't imagine in our current financial state, that this will go very far.

"Private sector companies typically offer women six weeks of paid maternity leave." Is this really true? I used to work for the Federal government, and while they were pretty good about allowing an adequate amount of leave without pay after accrued sick leave and vacation time were exhausted, there was no paid maternity leave. By the time I left for the private sector, I was no longer concerned about maternity leave, so didn't pay much attention to the policies at the companies at which I worked.