@elmann1 I didn't realize the policy either! For the first few weeks I was blissfully unaware and thought I'd have a sweet 6 or 7 month paid maternity leave with my baby. Was beyond disappointed when I realized that wasn't allowed.
Random: I just saw an article about how Netflix is giving their employees one year of paid maternity leave! Why can't every US company do this??
I am appalled by the maternity leave our country offers women, and lack of paternity leave as well. I work for a hospital and work very long hours. I worked 72 hours last week alone! When I took the job, I was told we had "great" maternity leave benefits. So, I was quite surprised when I got pregnant and found out what those benefits are: you get 2 weeks at full pay, but have to use your PTO (worst part is, I get zero PTO... No vacation, no sick, no personal days, nothing!) Then you get 4 weeks at 60%, them six weeks of no pay.
You would think that a hospital would understand the need for healing and bonding time, but no. Netflix employees get better maternity leave than doctors! What a crazy world we live in...
I'm a full time working momma and I can't stop until close to my due date. I only have 8 weeks left but honestly I have this funny feeling it's more like 6 weeks until he arrives. I've put myself on light office duty and it kind of helps. Hang in there.
Ugghh yes to all of this!!!!! Manspreading and rude people on trains, people literally PUSH me to get on the train- ridiculous. At first I was like oh wow that's so nice of someone to offer me a seat and now I'm like "I don't even want to sit but why aren't you offering????" Perfect timing for this thread and the Netflix news I saw this morning!!! Just run more salt in the fact that I have to worry about coming back to work @ pp to be able to pay the mortgage and help with bills! Living in Mass and metro Boston- nothing is affordable anymore!!!
I'm with you ladies! I work a desk job but it is high stress environment (I'm in sales) and my boss is the most passive aggressive terrible manager on the planet. I complain about her everyday...among other things at my awful job. Can't wait for maternity leave and then I'm job hunting!
I'm doing the same thing. While I'm off, I'll be looking around. I hate my job because it isn't stimulating at all. And all the people I got along with have already left. The customer service manager here (not my supervisor) acts like she's my boss. I've complained to HR and the VP before I resigned.
The CIO, who is acting as our interim direct, asked me if I'd be interested in working from home I'm guessing after my maternity leave is over. But he said I couldn't do it long term. BUMMER. If it were long term, I definitely would stay but I guess he doesn't want everyone else to start asking if they can. He my circumstances are unique and he's empathetic because he watched his wife with their 3 kids. I'm just super over this place.
Also, 55% of my salary is complete trash. My employer only pays you whatever accrued time off you have. Which sucks because when you come back, you exhausted your time off and something with the baby may come up and you have to eat that day off.
I have to go through the state for short-term disability. If my husband hadn't gotten this promotion, I'd have to come back ASAP. But I'm aiming for 16 weeks off.
I have a countdown on my calendar: 43 working days until my due date. Luckily, my maternity coverage gal starts shadowing me in a few weeks, but I work about 30 minutes from my hospital. It's an easy commute, but I am nervous about going into labor at the office and would really prefer to work from home beginning at least on September 28, which is about 1.5 weeks before my due date. My supervisor isn't a fan of working from home, even though he occasionally does it, and I'm one of the more tech-savvy employees here, so I know how to use the remote working tools no problem. My job is totally possible to do from home, and that mixed with a healthy anxiety about early labor at the office.... pretty sure no one wants my water to break here. I've also made the decision that I will not be on the road traveling to my schools this fall. Sorry, but there's no way I'm going to be on the road at 37+ weeks pregnant when someone is literally waiting to cover those meeting for me.
General US maternity policies suck. Is Netflix hiring?!
I have no maternity plan at my work. I think my boss would give me 6 weeks off if I asked, but it would be unpaid and she doesn't have to hold my job if she doesn't want to (too small to be covered by FMLA). I'm just using this as a way to bow out. I'm tired of being an attorney who makes $40k no benefits and we aren't even public interest. :P
I am appalled by the maternity leave our country offers women, and lack of paternity leave as well. I work for a hospital and work very long hours. I worked 72 hours last week alone! When I took the job, I was told we had "great" maternity leave benefits. So, I was quite surprised when I got pregnant and found out what those benefits are: you get 2 weeks at full pay, but have to use your PTO (worst part is, I get zero PTO... No vacation, no sick, no personal days, nothing!) Then you get 4 weeks at 60%, them six weeks of no pay.
You would think that a hospital would understand the need for healing and bonding time, but no. Netflix employees get better maternity leave than doctors! What a crazy world we live in...
I'm in much the same boat as you! I was told our benefits were great when I got hired.
Yeah, sure.
We get the 12 weeks allowed by FMLA but we ONLY get full pay for the time that we have saved up. I'll only have one week saved up (we were recently bought out by a terrible, slave driving company and we all lost 5 paid days off a year) and then I'll only get 4 weeks STD at 6% of my pay. The rest of my maternity leave is unpaid. I've been saving all my pennies to be able to afford to stay home the full 12 weeks.
I work for a very large medical practice. You would think (much like your hospital) that they would be more understanding.
Right there with you. Down from 12 hour days to 9s, but being in the military we cant just take sick days or random days off. 6 weeks of maternity leave, looking forward to that! I wish we were like the navy and marines and got 18 weeks off.
I had to check to make sure I didn't write this post at 2am when I couldn't sleep. Totally with you!! My job is horrible!! I work in a manufacturing plant it's soooo hot and soooo noisy. Not t mention our management is horrible to us. I feel like I'm working in a sweat shop which essentially it is! October seems like a lifetime away! I think this pregnancy has been so miserable for me because of my job. I'm also working to the bitter end. I am counting the days till birth.
Re: Anyone else working full time??
Random: I just saw an article about how Netflix is giving their employees one year of paid maternity leave! Why can't every US company do this??
You would think that a hospital would understand the need for healing and bonding time, but no. Netflix employees get better maternity leave than doctors! What a crazy world we live in...
Yeah, sure.
We get the 12 weeks allowed by FMLA but we ONLY get full pay for the time that we have saved up. I'll only have one week saved up (we were recently bought out by a terrible, slave driving company and we all lost 5 paid days off a year) and then I'll only get 4 weeks STD at 6% of my pay. The rest of my maternity leave is unpaid. I've been saving all my pennies to be able to afford to stay home the full 12 weeks.
I work for a very large medical practice. You would think (much like your hospital) that they would be more understanding.