DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson has asked the Government Performance & Financial Management Committee to explore whether the City can offer paid parental leave to its employees.
Currently, the City relies on other forms of leave, such as sick time and vacation time, as a means to provide employees with paid time off to care for their newborn children.
“This wonderful occasion is truly a blessing, and I am overjoyed by the birth of our third child,” Mayor Johnson wrote in his memo. “But the experience of becoming new parents again has also served as yet another reminder of the difficulties faced by working parents in our city.”
Mayor Johnson said he hopes the Committee will consider the costs and viability of offering paid paternal leave for City employees before the full City Council, which is on recess in July, passes the next fiscal year budget in September.
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