The US is the only developed country without paid maternity leave

Celticlass6 · June 2014

missnacholover said:

For me, personally, my company pays my STD premium and I will receive 2/3 pay for 6 or 8 weeks (vaginal vs. C-section) and have to supplement the remaining weeks with PTO or without pay. I've calculated it out and I should get some sort of pay for all but maybe 2 weeks (assuming I don't need to take much time off before then).

My HR rmentioned when i first told them that they've pretty much stopped paying for 8 weeks for a csection unless its medically necessary because so many women were electing to have them done.

missnacholover · June 2014

Celticlass6 said:

For me, personally, my company pays my STD premium and I will receive 2/3 pay for 6 or 8 weeks (vaginal vs. C-section) and have to supplement the remaining weeks with PTO or without pay. I've calculated it out and I should get some sort of pay for all but maybe 2 weeks (assuming I don't need to take much time off before then).

My HR rmentioned when i first told them that they've pretty much stopped paying for 8 weeks for a csection unless its medically necessary because so many women were electing to have them done.

Wow, that's crazy. Elective or not, it's still surgery!!!

jaminjeff · June 2014

missnacholover said:

sweetbabyrahe said:

No @lilwatz maybe it depends on what federal agency you work for. We can bank up to 6 weeks of annual leave per calendar year and sick leave accrues separately and has no cap for carryover. You accrue leave as you work and it depends on length of time you have been an employee. You can also voluntarily transfer annual leave hours to other employees in emergencies if that person signs up. With DS, I had banked 9 weeks worth of leave, my mom (a gov employee) donated 2 weeks and I returned to work after 11 weeks. This time I have 11 weeks banked but because of baby being born in November there will also be 5 paid holidays, so I will return after 12 weeks. I am not complaining because I still will be paid, but it is all hours I have accrued by not taking much vacation for many years.

So you don't have to count holidays towards your leave?

I wonder how that works if you're on STD?

I work for local government and part of our FMLA policy is that you don't have to use anything for the holidays (I'll have 8 paid holidays within my time frame - Thanksgiving (2), Christmas (2), NY (2), MLK & President's Day), but they run concurrent with your 12 week period of job protection, meaning, I can't take an extra 8 days of pay and still be protected after 12 weeks is up.

Lilwatz · June 2014

As promised, my old coworker who is passionate about paid maternity (and paternity) leave got back to me. Here are some of the cases FOR it from her:

This isn't a bad start: https://www.momsrising.org/issues_and_resources/maternity I would think that the reduction in INFANT MORTALITY would be a huge thing to wave in people's faces.

Here's why we need paid PATERNITY leave (almost as important IMO): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-daddy-track/355746/

And here's the summary of an NBER paper: https://www.batten.virginia.edu/content/batten-connections/how-paid-parental-leave-helps-you-your-newborn-and-job-market NBER is pretty much the platinum standard of econ research.

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