Paid maternity leave? Who pays? For how long? (wage, carry, federal government)
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Doctors and lawyers have others within their practices that can assume caseloads.
I am less familiar with software developers, but I am sure the same thing applies.
It is against the law to pay someone hourly as an independent contractor. Many in my industry have tried and many found out the consequences the hard way.
Against the law where? It must vary from state to state as I know people who get paid hourly by a single employer and then get a 1099 tax form as independent contractors at the end of the tax year.
Waterboy, you have no idea what work it is with a newborn baby!
Correct I dont . If someone wants to stay home with their new kid thats fine, but they should not be getting paid to do so any more then me wanting to spend time with my new boat.
Against the law where? It must vary from state to state ass I know people who get paid hourly by a single employer and then get a 1099 tax form as an independent contractor at the end of the tax year.
Wait till their employer gets a unemployment audit. He is in for a major surprise.
Doctors and lawyers have others within their practices that can assume caseloads.
I am less familiar with software developers, but I am sure the same thing applies.
I was a software developer (consultant) for 5 years. We hated it when someone left the project, because even if we had a replacement lined up it would take a minimum of 4-6 months to get the person up to speed on the project/client/designs to where they were really able to contribute. And these were people who already knew the language and the software.
When someone went on vacation for a week or two, it was easy enough to sort out. They'd work mega overtime the week before/after (60-70 hour weeks), and they'd make sure to have access to their cell phone and/or email during the week if an emergency came up. Then they'd come back and we'd all breathe a collective sigh of relief.
Only one person ever got pregnant on the project, thankfully...because I don't know what we would have done if it was a common occurrence. (Men outnumbered women 2:1 in the office, so odds were slim that we'd have a lot of maternity leave requests!) That was the roughest 2 months of my entire career. Everyone on her team picked up an extra 10 hours of work each week trying to get her work done for her, and she still had to be available for phone calls constantly when things came up. We didn't get paid for doing the overtime work, but it had to get done. There is no way we would have lasted longer than those 8 weeks. I'm pretty sure we were all ready to quit at the end of it, because it was so miserable.
TLDR; A lot of jobs are not replaceable by temps, because there is too much background knowledge required.
Doctors and lawyers have others within their practices that can assume caseloads.
I am less familiar with software developers, but I am sure the same thing applies.
I am a former software developer and I employ them. Yes, you can easily replace them with a temp as long as the skill set exists. In my type of work, I often use contractors and/or temp employees.
I was a software developer (consultant) for 5 years. We hated it when someone left the project, because even if we had a replacement lined up it would take a minimum of 4-6 months to get the person up to speed on the project/client/designs to where they were really able to contribute. And these were people who already knew the language and the software.
When someone went on vacation for a week or two, it was easy enough to sort out. They'd work mega overtime the week before/after (60-70 hour weeks), and they'd make sure to have access to their cell phone and/or email during the week if an emergency came up. Then they'd come back and we'd all breathe a collective sigh of relief.
Only one person ever got pregnant on the project, thankfully...because I don't know what we would have done if it was a common occurrence. (Men outnumbered women 2:1 in the office, so odds were slim that we'd have a lot of maternity leave requests!) That was the roughest 2 months of my entire career. Everyone on her team picked up an extra 10 hours of work each week trying to get her work done for her, and she still had to be available for phone calls constantly when things came up. We didn't get paid for doing the overtime work, but it had to get done. There is no way we would have lasted longer than those 8 weeks. I'm pretty sure we were all ready to quit at the end of it, because it was so miserable.
TLDR; A lot of jobs are not replaceable by temps, because there is too much background knowledge required.
Similar where I work; however, women outnumber men about 10:1!! We never get a temp because it takes at least a year to be proficient in the job enough to work on your own, all our jobs require access to about 6 different applications that take clearance and processing to get into. Most of what I do is "government inherent" so that contract employees are not allowed to do it.
We often have maternity leaves where I work. I've not seen one last more than 4 months. All the rest of the people in the department pick up the slack and usually have to work overtime. It's a pain but we have to do it for lots of other things. People often go on 6 week required training assignments too that cause the same inconvenience.
Doctors and lawyers have others within their practices that can assume caseloads.
I am less familiar with software developers, but I am sure the same thing applies.
So then temps don't fill in. The question was about temps.
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