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The Necessity of Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees: Paid Leave Is Not a Perk

Over 2.6 million federal employees are not receiving paid leave for family caregiving, medical issues and military deployments. (Max Pixel / Creative Commons) In 2019, the Senate passed The Federal Employee Paid Leave Act (FEPLA), which permits federal workers up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave due to the birth, adoption or fostering of a child. This moment was “a huge step forward,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, at a recent hearing. “There were only two countries in the world the United States and Papua New Guinea that did not provide, at that time, paid leave for the birth of a child.”

Rep Carolyn Maloney wants more paid leave for federal

SHARE: Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of Manhattan has long lobbied for paid family leave. Now with support from the Biden administration’s American Families Plan, she’s gotten a measure known as the Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act through the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which she chairs. The legislation would create comprehensive paid family leave for all federal employees including more than half a million working in New York state. City & State caught up with Maloney to discuss where the bill goes next and what it will mean for government workers if passed into law. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

Lawmakers Spar Over Paid Family Leave for Feds

Tweaks to Some Annuity Deposits, and More

Government Executive email A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news. The Office of Personnel Management this week issued regulations implementing a 2018 law to ensure that agencies can pay interest on federal employees’ behalf if the agency is responsible for an error in calculating the cost of an optional retirement benefit related to military or volunteer service. A provision of the 2018 Correcting Miscalculations in Veterans’ Pensions Act allows agencies to make payments on behalf of federal workers to cover for administrative mistakes that led those employees to underpay for an optional retirement annuity benefit. Currently, federal employees in the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees Retirement System who have served in the military after 1956 or volunteered in the Peace Corps or Volunteers in Service to America have the option to pay a deposit plus interest to their agency for their service in order to continue to receive retirement credit

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