The benefit won’t apply to unionized workers, who make up the vast majority of the municipal workforce.
New York City is expanding its family planning benefits for some municipal employees by offering to reimburse them up to $10,000 for costs related to adoption, surrogacy and egg and sperm donation, Mayor Eric Adams said on Monday. But just a small fraction of the city government's workforce will be eligible.
Because these benefits are only available to non-union employees, only 5% of the city workforce will be able to take advantage of them. Approximately 350,000 unionized city workers will not be eligible. Some advocates for LGBTQ+ equality praised the move to expand family planning benefits. “Providing resources for adoption, surrogacy and other options is essential for LGBTQ+ families, who have historically lacked this support,” Melissa D’Andrea Sullivan, executive director of the group PFLAG NYC, said in a statement.over allegations that it has discriminated against gay male employees for not providing them the same coverage for in-vitro fertilization as other city workers.
The new family planning benefits do not appear to have the same strings attached. But the $10,000 reimbursement still falls short of matching the full IVF benefits afforded to other city employees, Romer-Friedman said. He said the class-action lawsuit also seeks damages for gay male employees who have had to pay out of pocket for these services in the past.
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