AOC has a point: U.S. parental leave policy is shockingly bad compared to the rest of the world (Mexican, healthcare)

[PedroMartinez]

It's really simple.

Save your money before you get pregnant, and use it to take off.

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

It's really simple.

Save your money before you get pregnant, and use it to take off.

Nah, forcing other people at gunpoint to pay for it makes more sense.

[evilnewbie]

You get paid for not working? Huh... I can see it as a perk but mandatory?

[MacInTx]

I had a coworker in Canada who gave birth several years ago. She took 15 weeks of maternity leave and 35 weeks of parental leave. While on leave, she got pregnant again - another 15 weeks and 35 weeks.


The company paid her salary (or a percentage thereof) for almost two years while she did not work. When the second leave was about to end, she gave notice that she would not return to work.


Nice!

[Kevroqs]

Companies should set their own policies for parental leave, not the government.

[middle-aged mom]

Originally Posted by MacInTx

I had a coworker in Canada who gave birth several years ago. She took 15 weeks of maternity leave and 35 weeks of parental leave. While on leave, she got pregnant again - another 15 weeks and 35 weeks.


The company paid her salary (or a percentage thereof) for almost two years while she did not work. When the second leave was about to end, she gave notice that she would not return to work.


Nice!

Come October, 2020, you know, right before the election, Federal employees, male and female, will get a tax payer- funded parental leave. No doubt, some of them will engage in unprotected sex during the leave and in doing so, become eligible for another round.

[fibonacci]

The federal govt UNDER TRUMP, just approved 3 months leave with pay for parental leave for federal workers.



We discussed this at work; ironically most men didn't give 2-hoots about it and supported it. It was actually some older women who seems most toxic towards it, with some even claiming age discrimination.



I don't have a problem with 3 months + pay. Making sure you have a stable birth rate is absolutely critical to the republic. Look at Japan. They are facing an existential crisis.

[Kevroqs]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

It's really simple.

Save your money before you get pregnant, and use it to take off.

But all those rich people must pay for poor women who get pregnant and cannot work.

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by evilnewbie

You get paid for not working? Huh... I can see it as a perk but mandatory?

Not only getting paid for not working. They want to be paid for doing the most selfish thing in the world: having their own baby.

Nothing more selfish than that.

[boxus]

States are perfectly allowed to do this on their own.