AFT Resolution
LEAVE FOR MATERNITY AND CHILD REARING
WHEREAS, the 1972 AFT Convention adopted a comprehensive resolution on parental leave:
RESOLVED, that the 1973 AFT Convention reaffirms this policy with the following additions:
RESOLVED, that the employee should be allowed to apply accumulated sick leave to each maternity and any pregnancy related complication therefore; and
RESOLVED, that child rearing leave shall be available to either parent; and
RESOLVED, that no special penalty in service computation for sabbatical eligibility be applied to persons taking parental leave.
(1973)