Mayor De Blasio Signs Executive Order Giving Non-Union City Workers 6-Week Paid Parental Leave
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed a personnel order that provides paid parental leave to approximately 20,000 non-union New York City employees.
The mayor made the order official on Thursday during a news conference at the City Hall rotunda complete with cheering crowds and crying babies.
The city's leave policy is now among the most generous in the nation. When de Blasio announced the executive order last month, he said the change brings New York in line with cities like Pittsburgh and Austin, Texas.
To cover the $15 million cost, the non-union employees will give back two vacation days and the city will rescind a small portion of a planned 2017 raise.
Administration officials urged the city's much larger unionized workforce, numbering about 300,000 employees, to adopt the benefit through collective bargaining.
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