State employees with new family members can get up to 12 paid weeks off
More than 34,000 state employees are now eligible to get up to 12 weeks off with pay when they have a new family member. And that immediately covers those whose newborns, adoptions and foster placements occurred as far back as the first of the year.
Revised pay bill would exclude sick leave, health insurance, maternity leave
State lawmakers are moving to undermine the ability of cities to require employers to provide things like sick leave to local workers. And they're doing it in a back-door way.