County Commission approves parental leave for employees

HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF)- Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp praises the approval of paid ​​paternity leave for County government employees. 

 “We are involved in efforts with our Center for thriving families and with the United Way, and advocating that employers in our community would be supportive of working families and that they would be mindful of the role that parents play as first teachers and ultimately, those first few years of life, we think matter,” said Hamilton County Mayor, Weston Wamp. 

 As a part of this approval from County Commission, employees will be given eight weeks of paid maternity leave. 

 As well as two weeks of paid paternity leave after the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child.

 Mayor Wamp believes it’s important to take care of mothers’. 

“The signal to the community is we are developing a stronger community if we are not being cheap, but being responsible in taking care of mothers,” said Mayor Wamp. 

 In order for employees to qualify for leave, they must be working full-time. 

 Mayor Wamp says paternity and maternity is a step forward in Hamilton County;s growth. 

“if we do have a different responsibility to set the pace in our community if I am asking, companies that are relocating here, or existing companies here to do right by new mothers, we had better be practicing what we preach,” Mayor Wamp concluded.