Pregnant people in New York would have 40 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments under a new proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul after the state’s legislative session kicked off this week.
The Democrat’s plan to expand the state’s paid family leave policy, which would need to be approved by the state Legislature, aims to expand access to high-quality prenatal care and prevent maternal and infant deaths in New York, an issue that especially affects low-income and minority communities.
The U.S. infant mortality rate, a measure of how many babies die before they reach their first birthday, is worse than other high-income countries, which experts have attributed to poverty, inadequate prenatal care and other possibilities. The U.S. rate rose 3% in 2022 — the largest increase in two decades, according to a 2023 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
40 hours? Like as in 1 working week? Is that a joke?
In real world you get 14-52 weeks
It’s for when you’re still pregnant, to allow you to go to doctors visits and such, it’s not maternity leave that’s a whole different thing
Why would you get 12 months off for the duration of your 9 month pregnancy? Do babies take longer to make in other parts of the world?
This law is about when you have a fetus on the inside, not a baby on the outside. Maternity leave in New York is only 12 weeks however, which sucks.
Oh, I misunderstood that then.
Anyways, in Finland you can get preggomoney for 40 days, and parental allowance for 320 days though it’s not 100% of your salary but some decent percentage
https://www.kela.fi/daily-allowances-for-parents
NYS guarantees 12 weeks of paid postnatal parental leave, paid at 66% of your salary.
Which isn’t great, but is better than most states in the US.