“We should look at the four-weeks policy as sort of the minimum,” Assembly member Austin Quinn-Davidson said about paid parental leave. “It’s not like we’re doing something really groundbreaking here.”
“That’s following the birth of a child, adoption — so if you were to adopt, you still need that bonding time with your kid as well — and also foster placement,” she said.
Quinn-Davidson said the benefits of a parental leave program include allowing parents to spend more time bonding with newborns, as well as reducing rates of infant mortality and hospitalizations. In a time when child care options have become expensive and scarce in Anchorage, she said it helps retain employees and prevent the costly training of new hires. paid parental leave upon taking office in July 2021, he said it came “hastily only hours before the previous administration left office.
The proposed policy currently excludes union-represented employees, since changes to their work force policy would be subject to collective bargaining and contract negotiations between the city and unions. Quinn-Davidson said she’s hopeful that, if the Assembly approves parental leave, the city would later add the policy to union-represented employee benefits as well.
However, in the same report, Bronson expressed concern over how the policy could impact existing employees. Quinn-Davidson said she suspects he was referring to employees with children versus those without. She said she understands that perspective, but she thinks that the benefits to the community as a whole outweigh any concerns over fairness.
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