(A) An employee adopting a child under the age of ten shall be granted reasonable personal leave that does not exceed six weeks. Or, if the city has a policy of providing time off for birth parents that is greater than six weeks, that period of time shall be the minimum period of leave available to adoptive parents. During adoption leave, employees will be paid 50% of their normal rate of pay for four weeks as stated in the Maternity and Parental Leave Policy.
(B) In addition, if the city provides paid leave, or any other benefits, to employees who are birth parents following the birth of a child, the same paid leave and/or benefits) will be available to employees adopting a child under the age of ten.
(C) This leave is not available to an adoption by fictive kin, stepparent, stepsibling, blood relative, including a relative of a half-blood, first cousin, aunt, uncles, nephew, niece, and a person of a preceding generation as denoted by prefixes of grand, great or great-great, or foster parent who adopts a foster child who is already in their care.
(Ord. 5-11-2023-A, passed 6-8-2023)