Under the law, which was unanimously approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, companies with 20 or more employees are required to grant mothers and fathers six weeks of fully paid leave, nearly doubling the pay they are now eligible to receive under California law.
“Our country’s parental leave policies are woefully behind the rest of the world, and today San Francisco has taken the lead in pushing for better family leave policies for our workers,” Supervisor Scott Wiener said in a statement.
The new policy, effective in 2017, requires employers to pay 45 percent of wages for as long as six weeks. The remaining 55 percent of weekly wages will be supplied by a worker-funded state disability program, according to the report. Payments are calculated as a percentage of annual wages up to a ceiling of $106,740.
The city of San Francisco already offers 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave to its roughly 30,000 city employees, according to the report.
Other cities around the nation are taking steps to improve parental leave policies for employees. On Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed a bill granting 12-week paid family leave for workers in the private sector that will phase in by 2021.
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