For Philadelphia School District employees, planning maternity leave usually means hoarding sick days and saving up a nest egg to cover unpaid time. It might mean timing conception to intersect with the beginning of summer vacation — an impractical strategy for many couples — or delaying pregnancy for years.
Still, the teachers’ reality isn’t unique — many employers provide little or no paid parental leave. While the federal Family Medical Leave Act requires large employers to allow new parents 12 weeks of leave after childbirth without losing their position, it does not require employers to pay them for that time.
“It’s always our goal to provide our employees the best possible pay and benefits, within the bounds of what we can afford and while balancing the need for students to have consistent access to quality educators, schools and learning experiences that meet their various needs,” Braxton said in a statement to The Inquirer.
Journey, a single parent by choice, carefully calculated the timing of her pregnancy and maternity leave based on school district policy. “You should see the spreadsheets I had to make,” she said. She spent six years saving up paid sick days and enough money to cover her unpaid leave.
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