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Paid Parental Leave A Big City Money-Saver At Managers’ Expense

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 9/25/17

An analysis by the city’s Independent Budget Office of the early stages of Mayor de Blasio’s paid-parental-leave program found that relatively low usage by managerial employees gave the city a net savings of $5.8 million because of givebacks in salary all managers were required to make and vacation days more-senior ones relinquished in return for the benefit.

Stuart Eber, the president of the Managerial Employees Association, said the IBO study “affirms our contention that the city is overcharging the managers for Paid Parental Leave. PPL remains a great benefit with a defective payment methodology.”

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