Paid Parental Leave Benefit for GSEU

Published August 28, 2025

New York State has announced that eligible employees represented by the Graduate Student Employees Union will receive fully paid parental leave effective September 1, 2025 supporting gestational, non-gestational, adoptive and foster parents.

Eligible Employees

For a GSEU employee to be eligible the employee must:

Have completed one semester on state payroll, and
Be actively engaged in a full assistantship.

Benefit Highlights

Up to 12 weeks of paid leave per qualifying event (birth, adoption, foster care placement).
Leave must be taken in a single block and completed within seven months of the qualifying event.