{"id":426839,"date":"2026-08-07T22:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426839\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:42:10","slug":"sf-expands-paid-parental-leave-eligibility-for-workers-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426839\/","title":{"rendered":"SF expands paid parental leave eligibility for workers \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco is expanding paid parental leave benefits by making it easier for more workers to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the ordinance Friday during a ceremony in North Beach after it was recently approved by the Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>The new law cuts in half the minimum amount of time employees must work for a company before becoming eligible for paid parental leave. Previously, workers had to be employed for 180 days. Under the new ordinance, eligibility begins after 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders said the change is intended to help more new and expecting parents qualify for benefits sooner without having to choose between their careers and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco is expanding paid parental leave benefits by making it easier for more workers to qualify. Mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-426839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}