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The ordinance also includes six weeks paid time off for employees who adopt or have long-term placement of a foster child. It does not apply to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Employees, according to Garcetti. We ve got to stop continuing to punish women for having children and wanting to be caregivers and taking care of their loved ones, Council President Nury Martinez said. There is an unsaid assumption that women will work through maternity leave, and we re expected to give birth and get back to work right away and that s just absolutely ridiculous and if we want to be able to promote women in the workplace in the city of L.A., if we want more women leading departments, if we want more women making sure they re driving some of these policies that are fair and equitable than we need to recognize the importance of this policy, Martinez said.
LA City Council votes to give city employees paid parental leave
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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an ordinance to provide paid parental leave to all civilian city employees through June 30, 2025.
The ordinance, which gives the vast majority of city employees, regardless of gender, up to six weeks of 100% paid time off for pregnancy disability or to bond with a new child, is subject to the approval of Mayor Eric Garcetti, who reconfirmed his support in a statement after the vote. COVID-19 has shined a bright light on the unique struggles faced by parents every day to balance work and child care, and laid bare deep gender inequities across our society and economy, Garcetti said. No parent should have to rely on their sick or vacation days to bond with their children not during this pandemic and not ever and the Paid Parental Time pilot will ensure our city workers can keep their jobs and paychecks, and never h