Army Makes It Harder for Commanders to Deny Soldiers Leave for Abortions
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The Army has set new policies making it more difficult for units to deny soldiers’ requests to take leave to receive reproductive care including abortions, according to a force-wide memo. The strict new policies strip company-level commanders, usually a captain, of any authority to deny a soldier’s request to take leave and travel for care, […]
Army Secretary to Remind Commanders They Can’t Deny Soldiers’ Parental Leave
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Army Secretary Christine Wormuth plans to issue a servicewide reminder that soldiers are broadly entitled to parental leave and that the time off can be denied only by a general, according to an unsigned draft copy of the memo reviewed by Military.com. The memo comes after Military.com in recent months interviewed two soldiers who say […]