Paid parental leave using pooled sick days proposed for Florida government employees
Expectant parents employed by the state may soon be able to tap into paid sick leave pools so they can take up to a month off to spend with their new children.
Many eligible government workers throughout Florida can already participate in programs allowing them to voluntarily contribute their accumulated paid sick days to a collective pool. Those participating employees may then use those days as needed for paid sick, accident or injury leave.
HB 1053, a bill Republican Rep. Vance Aloupis of Miami filed Tuesday, would require Florida departments and agencies to extend that perk to employees welcoming a newborn or newly adopted child.
Aloupis told Florida Politics he based the bill on one Ark...
