Maryland lawmakers resurrect paid family, medical leave bill, as other states make it law
ANNAPOLIS —Baltimore nurse practitioner Rebecca Coppola cobbled together disability pay, accrued sick days and five paid days off from her employer in order to spend the 12 weeks at home she felt she needed to adequately care for her first newborn.
Although the money she accumulated was helpful, Coppola said she only received 20% of her regular salary over the 12 weeks she was off.
“It’s not enough,” she said.
Without her husband’s salary as a software consultant, the time off would have been even more financially difficult. Even for her husband, it all came with a cost.
“He wasn’t really able to take time to just slow down and focus on bonding as a family,” she said.
Read more: https://marylandreporter.com/2022/02/23/maryland-lawmakers-resurrect-paid-family-medical-leave-bill-as-other-states-make-it-law/