Just had my meeting w/ HR to discuss maternity leave/policies/etc. Wowza!!! I get 13 weeks FULLY paid! Plus they give you 2 weeks prior to your due date which doesn't count against your 13 weeks, so it's really like 15 weeks. AND the 13 weeks doesn't start until baby is born and they count any time in between your due date & that date as short-term disability (fully paid). So if baby is 2 weeks late (lord help me), I would have 17 weeks fully paid! And if I decide not to go back to work at the end, that's that. Don't have to come back for a day or anything in order to keep it.
Now I just have to hold my breath for the next 14 weeks and hope that I don't get included in any mass company layoffs.
Re: AW: Holy maternity leave, Batman!
Good for you. I am jealous.
I'm a teacher but my due date is July 30. I have 6 wks, but only the first 10days are full pay, while school is in session.
That's an incredible policy! I have the same s.t.d. policy - if there was ever an incentive to deliver late:) We only get 10 weeks after delivery, though.
holy crap! that is awesome....can i work there?? I get short term which is technically 4 wks paid only 60%....totally sucks!!!
that is so great!! good for you!!!
Yeah it's a pretty big finance firm. Global.
I am so jealous, I am a teacher too, and I only get 6 weeks, and the only part that is paid is my sick days. Which I have to use all of them.
I thought before I became a teacher I heard about all the good benefits, and you would think maternity leave stuff....No such luck.