Paid parental leave was expanded for city workers to three months, but CPS employees get only two weeks.
CPS kindergarten teacher Alli Soldner, joined by CTU members and aldermen, carries petitions calling for Mayor Lori Lightfoot to extend paid parental leave to district employee, as it has with city workers.
After the meeting, a district spokesperson said CPS “remains committed to exploring an updated parental leave policy and ... is taking the necessary time to conduct a preliminary review of our policies and engage with the union leadership to bargain over how to best support our team members who are new parents.” The spokesperson said any update to district policy will also require a 30-day public comment period, community engagement and an equity review.
“I want this to be a policy of not only the city of Chicago, but our sister agencies. But it has to be done through the collective bargaining process. They need to get at the table,” Lightfoot said. The mayor’s office first announced the 12-week leave granted to around 32,000 city employees in a Sept. 30 news release, crediting the policy update to an agreement with AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
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