City Council here has approved a record-setting parental leave policy.
Full-time employees will be offered six months of paid maternity and paternity leave.
In order to qualify, the employee has to be employed by the village for at least one year. The mayor and other elected officials are not eligible for the leave.
According to Newburgh Heights Mayor Trevor Elkins, the village is the first in Ohio and the nation to offer six months of paid parental leave.
"We are very excited to be able to share this benefit with our employees. We want them to know we value family and the very important early months with their children," said Elkins.
The employee must be the birth mother, a father of the birth child, a same-sex domestic partner of the birth mother, a same-sex domestic partner of the birth father, an adoptive mother or father or a same-sex domestic partner of an adoptive mother or father.
Surrogate mothers and sperm donors are not eligible for the leave, according to the ordinance.
The leave must be taken during the first 12 months following the birth or adoption. It can be used during a continuous or intermittent period of time.
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