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Paid Prenatal Personal Leave

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Rule status: Proposed

Agency: DCWP

Comment by date: February 14, 2025

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DCWP-NOH-Proposed-Rule-Paid-Prenatal-Personal-Leave.pdf

The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection is proposing to amend rules related to the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act ("ESSTA"). Part M of Chapter 55 of the Laws of 2024 amended section 196-b of the New York State Labor Law by requiring every employer to provide to its employees twenty hours of paid prenatal personal leave during any fifty-two week calendar period. This proposed rule amendment would incorporate the labor law’s paid prenatal personal leave requirements into ESSTA, clarify the penalties and remedies that DCWP may order for violations of such requirements, and provide additional clarification for employers about their compliance obligations.

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Online comments: 13

  • Katherine Castellanos

    I would like to gain knowledge on this if it is effective as of 1/1/2025

    Comment added January 16, 2025 3:21pm

  • Shlomo Mor

    Many rules and regulations that keep adding on in NYC increasing the cost of performing Construction and renovation work in NYC it makes it unworthy to stay in the construction business any longer.
    Me as many other contractors decided to quit performing any more businesses in the city of New York.
    After close to 40 years in business I decided to close my business at the end of this year.
    It is unfortunate but the cost of staying in business in the city of New York becomes unbearable.

    Comment added January 16, 2025 4:10pm

  • GERARDO FAJARDO

    THERE IS NOT FAMALE IN THIS CORPORATION BUT A AGREE TO ALL LAW AND RULES NEED IT

    Comment added January 16, 2025 9:18pm

  • Michele Lynn Fox

    We need paid parental leave in NYC!!

    Comment added January 17, 2025 12:24pm

  • NAEEM AKHTAR

    Hello
    I received this email I am not sure what I have to do can you please direct me what I need to do you can reach me at 518986/1419

    Comment added January 21, 2025 6:54pm

  • Dahlia Lopez Ramsay

    Essential accommodation for expecting mothers. You must approve any measure that extends paid leave for families expecting and raising newborns.

    Comment added January 28, 2025 4:33pm

  • WASEEM Akhtar

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    New-York-builder-license.pdf
    Comment added February 3, 2025 12:14pm

  • Elle Bee

    It would be helpful to define or further explain “end-of-pregnancy care appointments”, which the law does apply to, as opposed to “post-natal or postpartum appointments”, which the law does not apply to.

    Comment added February 10, 2025 1:15pm

  • Ella Gant

    Why is NYC proposing rules related to a STATE law? Enforcing the NY Labor Law is the provenance of the NY Dept. of Labor, NOT the DCWP, and the DCWP has no right to impose its own penalties for violation of a state law. This proposal is duplicative and unnecessary, and potentially harmful if city rules contradict the state rules. The state law ALREADY APPLIES to all NYC employers.

    The ordinance that the agency is charged with enforcing (ESSTA) does not require prenatal leave, so in essence DCWP is proposing an expansion of city law through regulation and guidance beyond the scope of the law purported to be implemented by these proposed rules. Such action is improper and an abuse of agency discretion. I hate to say it, but that kind of overreach is what inspired the MAGA movement and the creation of DOGE as well as other states’ laws that preempt and forbid local ordinances that contradict or complicate state laws.

    If NYC wants to have its own prenatal leave law, then city council should amend the ordinance and persuade the Mayor to sign such an amendment. Until that happens, DCWP should not be implementing such rules.

    I would withdraw this proposal in its entirety.

    Comment added February 12, 2025 10:57am

  • Rebekah Cook-Mack

    Please see attached.

    Comment attachment
    2025-Feb-14-Paid-prenatal-leave-rule-DCWP.pdf
    Comment added February 14, 2025 10:49am

  • Rebekah Cook-Mack

    Please see attached on behalf of NELA/NY.

    Comment attachment
    Prenatal-Leave-for-NELA.pdf
    Comment added February 14, 2025 12:30pm