Mayor Young signs city paid parental-leave policy
Mayor Paul Young (center) signed an executive order for paid parental-leave for city employees Monday, July 20, alongside City Council members Jerri Green (left) and Michalyn Easter-Thomas (right). (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Memphis Mayor Paul Young signed an executive order that puts in place up to six weeks of fully paid leave for full-time city employees following the birth, adoption or fostering of a child.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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