patching...
Update: Sign up for our daily newsletter and breaking news alerts to stay on top of Beacon Hill news and happenings. »
Welcome back, Patch Blogger!

Council to Look at Offering Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave for City Employees

At-Large City Councilor Felix Arroyo would like Boston to be the second city in the U.S. to offer its employees paid maternity and paternity leaves.

 

Boston City Councilor At-Large Felix Arroyo will hold a future hearing to examine the feasibility of instituting paid maternity and paternity leave for city employees.

Arroyo introduced his hearing at Wednesday's Boston City Council meeting. "Boston could continue to lead in workers' rights... [Employees] either take sick time or find outside care and use up their vacation time. Or come to work quicker. I don’t think this is something working families in Boston should be faced with."

The Massachusetts Maternity Leave Act (MMLA) passed in 1972 offers eight weeks unpaid covering both men and women. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 is a federal law that guarantees 12 weeks of unpaid job leave, but only covers employees who have been with the company for 1 year and 1,250 hours.

New Boston union contracts offer 12 months of unpaid leave, during which employees must use paid time off after the first eight weeks, as provided by the MMLA, said Arroyo. 

Before being elected, Arroyo was the political director for SEIU Local 615, and has long been a supporter of workers' rights. He added that only one city in the U.S. offers paid maternity and paternity leave to its employees, which Chicago adopted under Mayor Rahn Emanuel in 2011. Chicago offers four paid (six for C-section) weeks to women maternity leave after giving birth, adoptive parents receive two weeks paid, and partners and spouses receive one week.

The order was referred to the Committee of Labor, Youth Affairs and Health, which Arroyo chairs.  

Related Topics: Boston City Council, Count Us In, Maternity leave, and Paternity leave

dfhgfjhkjlkj

2:08 am on Friday, November 9, 2012

Although http://www.coachoutletonlineoe.com Coach Factory Outlet the numbers of reverse mortgages have declined in recent years, the rate of default is http://www.louisvuittonbeltscp.com Louis Vuitton Belts at a record high roughly 9.4 percent of loans, according to the consumer protection http://www.coachfactoryoutlethn.org Coach Factory Store bureau, up from around 2 percent a decade earlier. And borrowers are putting their nest http://www.http://www.coachbagsoutletel.com Coach Bags Outlet equity in their homes can borrow against a percentage of that and take out a lump sum or a http://www.coachoutletonlineef.org Coach Outlet Online line of credit. The loan doesn’t have to be repaid until the homeowner moves out or http://www.coachfactoryonlineen.com Coach Factory Online dies, but borrowers still have to pay property taxes, maintenance and insurance. Some http://www.coachfactoryoutletion.com Coach Factory Outlet widows are facing eviction after they say they were pressured to keep their name http://www.hemesbelscq.com Hermes Belt off the deed without being told that they could be left facing foreclosure after their http://www.coachoutletmls.com Coach Factory Outlet Online husbands died.

Reply

nishishi

5:05 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012

8rebels facing Assad's http://www.coachfactoryoutletonlinebc.org air force, Western governments have shown little appetite for http://www.coachoutletod.com new military ventures in such a complex Arab state.nd Russia and China, which have blocked http://www.coachfactoryoutletbo.net previous moves against Assad in the United Nations Security Council, are unlikely http://www.coachoutletpn.com swiftly to alter positions which call for dialogue with Assad and view opposition groups http://www.coachfactorystoredo.com as being in thrall to the West.egional power Iran, in whose Shi'ite brand of http://www.coachfactoryoutletsp.com Islam Assad's Alawite minority has its religious roots, remains firmly behind the president http://www.coachoutletstorefb.com in a conflict which pits him against majority Sunni Muslims supported by Iran's http://www.coachoutletstoreonlinert.com Sunni Arab adversaries.After long arguments over whether and how to form the new http://www.coachoutletonlinelc.net opposition assembly, the speed with which a consensus emerged within hours to ensure http://www.coachoutletonlinelon.com that Khatib stood unopposed for the post of president was notable and may encourage its http://www.coachoutletonlinelsa.com supportersHis deputies will be Riad Seif, a veteran dissident who had proposed the U.S.-backed initiative

Reply

Leave a comment

 
 
 

In This article

  • Boston City Council

    Boston City Council

    1 City Hall Sq Ste 550, Boston, MA

See More on Patch

 

Most Popular articles