The UFT in 2018 was the first municipal union in New York City to secure paid parental leave for its members. Parents of any gender may be eligible to take paid parental leave following the birth, adoption or foster care placement of a child under...

If you have worked the Chapter 683 program for the past two years, you may now choose to take advantage of paid parental leave during the Chapter 683 program, or you may wait to take paid parental leave until the school year begins. Learn more about...

Thanks to the hard work of thousands of UFT members during a lengthy public campaign, the UFT was the first public-sector union in New York City to secure paid parental leave for the workers it represents.

UFT members who take an approved unpaid leave will get all of the rate increases that other employees will receive upon their return. In addition, they will receive all of their retroactive pay so long as they return from leave by Oct. 1, 2023, and...

UFT members planning to have children were excited about the new paid parental leave policy and reassured about what it would mean for their families.

After months of intense negotiations and a public campaign by thousands of UFT members, we became the first public-sector union in the history of New York City to negotiate paid parental leave for the people we represent.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew and three New York City public school educators — Carolyn Dugan, Eric Rubin-Perez and Jessica Jean-Marie — testified before the New York City Council Committee on Education and Committee on Civil Service and Labor...

The United Federation of Teachers fully supports the terms of its newly won paid parental leave benefit.