Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 64
Six weeks of guaranteed paid maternity leave
Never delivered“[paraphrase] Provide six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit.”
- Promised
- , Child care policy speech, Aston, Pennsylvania
- Re-promised
- 6 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Other
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
No national paid maternity leave program was enacted. Proposals appeared in budget documents but were not taken up by Congress. The 2019 defense authorization act gave 12 weeks of paid parental leave to federal employees only, which PolitiFact cited in rating the broader promise a compromise: the vast majority of private-sector workers still had no paid leave.