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13315441, The maternity policy is insane
Posted by Marauder21, Fri Feb-22-19 03:29 PM
And sounds like something cooked up by Paul Ryan after he got particularly excited by a late night Ayn Rand binge.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-staff.html

Among other concerns, her office’s paid parental leave policy has been described as unusual on Capitol Hill. Two people familiar with the policy said that those who took paid leave were effectively required, once they returned, to remain with the office for three times as many weeks as they had been gone. The policy, outlined in an employee handbook, called for those who left anyway to pay back money earned during the weeks they were on leave.

After receiving questions about the policy from The Times, Ms. Klobuchar’s office said it would be revised. “We offer 12 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave for our staff and have one of the strongest paid leave policies in the Senate,” said a spokeswoman, Elana Ross. “We’ve never made staff pay back any of their leave and will be changing that language in the handbook.” She declined to provide a copy of the current policy as written.