FISCAL NOTE
Title:
Effective Date:
Affected Agency and/or Agencies:

Paid Parental Leave
1/1/2016 – 12/31/16 (one-year pilot program)
All

Note Prepared by:

Matthew McCoy, Labor Relations Analyst, Office of Labor
Relations

Department Sign Off:
Office of Performance, Strategy
and Budget Sign Off:

Phone: 263-1995

N/A
Helene Ellickson, Budget Manager

Phone: 263-9691

EXPENDITURES FROM:
Fund Title

Fund
Code

All

Department

All
TOTAL

2016

$

2,901,926

$

2,901,926

EXPENDITURE BY CATEGORIES:
Expense Type

Dept
Code

Department

2016

Salaries
OT
PERS & FICA

TOTAL

$

2,480,279

$
$

421,647
2,901,926

ASSUMPTIONS:
Assumptions used in estimating expenditure include:
1.
2.

Pilot Program:
Other Cost Factors:

1/1/2016 – 12/31/16 (one-year pilot program).
Paid Parental Leave will supplement other forms of paid leave to ensure that an
employee will receive the equivalent of the employee’s usual salary for up to a total
of twelve weeks while on a qualifying approved leave. Employees must first exhaust
all accrued paid leave, except one week of sick leave and one week of vacation leave.
The supplemental paid leave combined with the employee’s accrued leaves, less one
week of sick leave and one week of vacation, shall not exceed twelve weeks.
The estimated costs:
 Assume a 1.0 backfill for all, knowing that certain employees may not need
to be backfilled and others will need to be backfilled at 1.5 times their
normal rate of pay.
 Do not include lost revenue from employees being off work.
 Do not include the costs of the system creation and implementation by
central and agency staff.
 Do not factor in costs of coverage for foster-to-adopt instances, because it is
difficult to estimate how many employees will participate in this program.
 Assume employee leave use behavior does not change prior to the addition
of the new child.

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