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Board hears staff revisions to maternity and parental leave to align with updated Utah code
Summary
Human-resources staff described proposed changes to District Policy DP 380 to comply with recent Utah Code revisions: rename and reframe the policy (postpartum recovery and parental leave), extend parental leave from two to three weeks, tighten usage timing to six months, and remove employer repayment requirements.
Brent Burke, presenting for human resources, told the board May 13 that state law required updates to DP 380 (maternity and parental leave). Burke said the main changes are renaming the benefit to a two-part model of three weeks of postpartum recovery for the birthing parent followed consecutively by three weeks of parental leave, and expanding parental-leave eligibility to include adoption and legal guardianship as specified in the updated Utah Code.
Burke explained another significant…
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