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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t feds getting paid family leave for birth of a child now? Enacted end of year, when does it start?[/quote]

The start of the next fiscal year - so babies born on or after October 1 2020.

OP - is there anyone at your agency you can ask about this? I remember seeing someone in my agency do this before I had kids and thinking it was a little tacky unless they had NICU or serious physical complications.  But now, due to events out of my control, I won't have enough leave to cover the 6-8 week recovery period (and will just miss the October 1 2020 deadline) and my HR contact is encouraging me to request donations because apparently a lot of people in our agency have use or lose to donate and in the past have been happy to do so for women recovering from birth.  I don't know if I will or just try to figure out how to get by on LWOP but her perspective on it was different than what I expected and has made me rethink my prior judgment on it (as have my prior birth recoveries). Those who don't want to donate to you, won't. So the norms on this do seem to vary agency to agency. Because you are new though, you may want to think harder about it as this may be some people's first introduction to you.[/quote]

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