Bipartisan Bill Would Extend Feds' Paid Parental Leave to Military Troops
Government Executive email Bipartisan Bill Would Extend Feds’ Paid Parental Leave to Military Troops Legislation would provide service members with 12 weeks of paid parental leave per year and would extend the benefit to scenarios involving miscarriages and stillbirths. A bipartisan group of lawmakers this week introduced a bill that would extend to military service members the recently implemented paid parental leave program available to federal employees. On Tuesday, Reps. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and David Joyce, R-Ohio, i...