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July 2011 Moms
Could your DH take paternity leave?
I'm just wondering how things work in the US. Here in Canada, we get a yr maternity leave, which I could take all of (what we did with DD and will do with DD2), DH could take all of, or we could split somehow (both take 6 months, 9/3 months, etc). I'm just curious if in your situation, your DH could take paternity leave. Is it specific to his employer's plan? Do men often take a leave when baby comes?
Here, I've only heard of three instances where the dad took any of the leave (and one has yet to happen, they keep pushing it back, so far just the mom has been off). In another case, the mom was a SAHM after their first baby, so she wouldn't have received any pay for their second. Thus the dad took the 6 weeks that our employer tops up to 95% salary for.
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Re: Could your DH take paternity leave?
MH is taking 2 weeks sick leave to be home 2 weeks before he'd have to start overnight travel again. If I or LO has some unfortunate complications he could apply for FMLA (family medical leave act) or take another week of vacation time, but it'd be a real PITA to do so with his current job. The US bites the big one on paternity leave even more so than maternity leave.
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My DH did have paternity leave when he worked at a large consulting/accounting firm. Four weeks I believe. At his current job he doesn't get anything, he would just have to use his normal leave. (They don't have maternity leave either though.)
Luckily, due to the nature of his work he can work from home/make his own schedule. He is only planning on taking one or two days off.
My DH gets 10 days paternity leave. But we are both Active Duty Air Force
DH gets a week of paternity leave, which he has to use within 6 months of the birth. It is not connected to my employment at all. It is also separate from his PTO.
I don't think your DH could actually take the *entire* year as ~15 weeks of that is technically "maternity" leave and the rest is "parental" leave. He could only share the "parental" leave with you.
I'm in Canada too but DH is working as a post-doc now which is NOT insurable by EI. So he can't claim EI benefits and therefore can't share my leave
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Here, in Luxembourg, I get maternity leave, I have to be the one who takes it so that's I believe 8 weeks before the due date and 12 after the due date. My DH gets a week or two off after the birth. After this I or my partner can take parental leave, there is an option of 6 months full or 12 months part time. At a later date the other parent can take 6 months or 12 months, I think this has to be before the child is 5.
After parental leave you can take 5 years off from your job for educational leave, your company has to take you back at the end in a position of the same level. During this leave the government pays you a small amount of money.
You`re right. I also have a friend who adopted, and apparently she only gets 9 of the 12 months, as the first three are considered `recovery from birth/delivery` and thus medical.
In theory he could take 12 weeks of FMLA, but it's not necesarily paid. With his employer he can take 2 weeks, plus any earned vacation time. He'll take the week LO arrives, and the week when I go back to work.
He also has every other friday off all summer and the ability to work from home a lot, so he'll have the flexability to help out even when he's not off.
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He does not get paid paternity leave. He could take unpaid leave (FMLA) but we depend on his income so he will not be doing that.
DH is planning on using his PTO and vacation time.
Yes, in the form of FMLA (unpaid, 12 weeks). He has so much vacay though he is just using that. He is taking a week at birth and then two weeks after I return to work so he gets some bonding time with LO.
My brother gets paid paternity leave with his job and is taking 3 of the 6 he is entitled to. His wife is going to be a SAHM though.
Sort of - he is eligible to take the 12 weeks of unpaid time off per the FMLA and could use his PTO (sick/vaca/personal days) to get paid during some of those weeks. We have a feeling it would not be welcome news at his work even though legally they'd have to allow it.
His employer doesn't have extra paternity leave outside of the federal mandates.
He will probably take between 1-2 weeks off depending on when baby is born and how things go. And he will be using his vacation time to get paid for those days off.
This. Not that we would want to go three months without a paycheck anyway (I'm a stay at home mom).
That being said, his company is pretty family friendly and if he works a few of his days off before the baby gets here, they will likely just let him have some paid days off after she gets here. Either way, he's going to take a week off, whether it's paid or not.
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It sounds like people are discussing 2 different things interchangeably. Most people's husbands are probably eligible to take FMLA leave, but it is usually unpaid. Paternity leave varies company to company, and may be paid or not. Most companies don't even offer any paid maternity leave in the U.S., so I can only imagine paid paternity leave is like finding a leprechaun.
My husband is taking a month off. It will be paid using a combination of sick time and vacation. Most dads that we know seem to take off a week or 2.
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My husband gets two weeks of paid paternity leave BUT it is only because his company is Dutch-owned. My dad works for a Australian based company and even though his office is in Hawaii and the rules are different- he capitulates and gave a guy three months paid leave and another woman six months of paid mat leave. He is such a softie when it comes to his employees, where was that when I was growing up?
My husband gets 10 paid days off a year. YOu can call them sick, vacation, PTO, paternity leave, personal day, whatever you want but thats it. He has saved 7 of them.
for the record, last year he only got 5. His company sucks.