Workers across Cook County government could soon be eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental leave under a proposal from Cook County Commissioner Bridget Degnen and Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
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The current cost of paid parental leave is $2.1 million, according to the county’s bureau of finance. The estimates released Thursday assume all employees take the full 12 weeks. As it stands, about 40% of employees take less than 12 weeks off.Officials reviewed new births and adoptions per year for employees “and historical parental leave data from previous years” to land on the cost, finance spokesman Ted Nelson said in an email. “The expected additional cost of $3.
“I’m a mother myself, not to mention a grandmother, so I believe in parental leave,” she said. “I’d like to be able to offer this benefit to both our exempt and union employees at the same time, and we’re trying to figure out how to manage that.”
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