The mission of the Universal Paid Leave agency (UPL) is to provide paid-leave benefits to private employees in the District for up to eight weeks of parental leave, six weeks of family leave, and two weeks of medical leave for every fifty-two weeks worked, thereby contributing to and increasing the quality of life in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Summary of Services

UPL provides central functions that include, but are not limited, to the call center, executive tasks, research procedures, writing and issuing policies and procedures, facilitating trainings, project management, business analysis and process improvement, program support, internal and external communications regarding the UPL program, and performing budget analysis. The budget also includes benefit payment amounts.