Paid leave for state employees and teachers to come up again in 2025 legislative session
The Alabama legislature started it’s 2025 regular session last week, and one of the issues Governor Kay Ivey has thrown her support behind is paid leave for state employees and teachers. There is currently not a state parental leave policy.
The governor commissioned a study to find out why Alabama was losing state employees and teachers, and the lack of parental leave was the number one reason. The eight weeks of paid leave would apply to mothers, and in the case of adoption, it would apply to one parent. Senator Vivian Figures and Representative Ginny Shaver are joining forces this year to try to pass the legislation, and Shaver says it is a good example of how children born and unborn are important to Alabamians.
“Giving parental leave to teachers and state employees will allow them to properly bond with their children and not have to worry about their jobs. So it will provide more well-adjusted children, stronger families and better employees,” said Representative Shaver.
Shaver also sponsored a paid parental leave bill in the 2024 session, and says she thinks they will have more support to pass it this year.
