NYC teachers what did you do for maternity leave

I found out last night from a friend who is a payroll secretary that i can not do what i planed i was going to use my 20 days borrow 20 days adn a 30 days grace period. Found out by law you get 6 weeks thats it for maternity.A women at work is doign someting liek using all her days in teh bank and my friend said thatst illegal and the secretary, principal and her could get in trouble.Either way i am staying out 12 weeks if i get paid for teh last 6 or not. 6 weeks pay is not goign to killus. but it would be nice.TIA

Re: NYC teachers what did you do for maternity leave

I was curious about the same thing. I teach on LI, and thought we had 10 weeks paid, but I am not too sure if that is true.

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I am not PG, but I teach on LI...
We get 6 weeks paid (using our banked sick days...ugh)
Then we can take the 12 FMLA without pay but with insurance...

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Depending on csection ornatural.

If you give birth naturally you have 6 weeks, within those 6 weeks you use up your days that is why you get paid. If it is a c section you have 8 weeks. You can only borrow days once you have exhausted your sick days. Once the six weeks are up youare on your own. YOu can take a leave called SLOAC (which is a sort of child care leave) It is unpaid however you get medical coverage for 4 months.

Some people (like myself) have no sick days left even before the baby is born that is why some people take a grace or borrow. But you only get paid 6 weeks.

When are you due?

I gave birth before school started so I had to start counting 6 weeks from the day the baby is born!!!!! Not six weeks once shcool starts. IT *****!

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I teach on LI and am due in July. I am planning on taking the FMLA which starts the first day of school. I will not have to use any of my sick days this way.

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I'm using the days in my bank, so I will get paid for only about 19 days. I would really like to be home 12 weeks with the baby, so we are going to try and see if we can swing that.

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ia m due 9/9. 6 weeks mean i would have to go back 10/23 nd thast not happeneing! so i willtake an additonal six withthat chld care leave with upt 4 months with medical coverage that someone mentioned and go back a few weeks before christmas

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Noel -

I belive what I am doing is taking the 6 weeks FMLA and then 6 weeks disability which keeps you on payroll and keeps your health ins. for another 6 weeks. You get paid for weekends and holidays. That's what I and another teacher who is due a week after me are doing... came straight from pour payroll sec. Hope this helps

Lauren

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I was told I could take longer if I had the days in my bank -- but I actually had negative 7 because I was hit by a car a year earlier outside of the school and they never approved it as a "line of duty" so I lost the days.

My advice would be to talk to your union rep, and if your union rep isn't so good then call the union #.

I borrowed 20 days and then did the 30 days paid for nights/weekends/holidays thing until my 8 weeks (c-section) were up.