Changes made to Allegheny County’s paid parental leave proposal<\/p>\n
PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n
The Allegheny County Board of Health is making some major changes to its proposal for paid parental leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n Several changes were announced Wednesday, following months of public feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n WHAT’S DIFFERENT?<\/p>\n The revised proposal includes:<\/p>\n Decreasing mandated paid time off from 18 weeks to 12 weeksFull-time workers must be employed at least six months to qualify, or 625 hours logged for part-timeOnly employers with 15 or more full-time or part-time employees would be required to complyWHAT HAPPENS NEXT?<\/p>\n If the board votes in favor of the new policy, it would need to go before Allegheny County Council for a vote. If approved by council, the bill then moves on to County Executive Sara Innamorato to be signed.<\/p>\n “It’s important to remember that today is not a final decision, but an opportunity to share the revised proposal which reflects community input,” Dr. Iulia Vann, director of the county Health Department, said in a statement. “With today’s comments, the Board of Health can now reflect further on the paid parental leave proposal.”<\/p>\n Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 reporter Felicity Taylor is covering the board meeting as the parental leave proposal is being discussed. Look for a full report on this page later tonight and on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Changes made to Allegheny County’s paid parental leave proposal PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Allegheny County Board of Health is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,894,14869,60,525,97864,119707,13187,16020,81957,81955,119705,119706,73,75,74,91878,47469,2583,5865,10254],"class_list":["post-287729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-news","tag-allegheny-county","tag-board","tag-business","tag-change","tag-employers","tag-full-time-worker","tag-month","tag-page","tag-paid-leave","tag-parental-leave","tag-parental-leave-proposal","tag-part-time","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-public-feedback","tag-reporter-felicity-taylor","tag-wednesday","tag-week","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}