The following article by Tim Pugmire was posted on the MPR website March 7, 2017:
State employees are urging Minnesota lawmakers to preserve their newly-acquired benefit of paid parental leave.
DFL Gov. Mark Dayton took administrative steps last year to grant six weeks of paid leave to about 32,000 state workers. But the benefit will soon go away unless the Republican-controlled Legislature approves it this session.
Minnesota Department of Health employee Blair Sevcik, who is currently on a paid leave, praised the benefit Tuesday during a state Capitol news conference organized by the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees. Continue reading “Future cloudy for state parental leave benefit”