Over the past 10 years, New York State has issued a series of mandates concerning paid leave for private sector employees, becoming a national leader in paid leave provisions for workers as a result. This year’s addition of a first-of-its-kind Paid Prenatal Leave program expands the state’s employee leave policy, providing for those in the workforce who will soon become parents.
In the wake of the changes, Long Island attorneys are helping to keep employers compliant, and their employees informed of their rights.
“New York has been one of states that has led the way in paid leave for employees,” says Jessica Moller, a partner at Bond, Schoeneck & King’s Long Island office in Melville. She alludes to the enactment of New York State’s Paid Family Leave policy in 2016, which allowed private sector employees paid time off to bond with newly born, adopted or fostered children, care for injured or sick family members, or assist family members whose spouse, partner, child or parent is deployed for active military service, as one example of the state’s progress on the issue.
“The state’s paid family leave policy was an effort to help working families by not forcing them ‘to choose between caring for their loved ones and risking their economic security’,” Moller says, paraphrasing New York’s own website, paidfamilyleave.ny.gov.
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