being successful in the us means having a job that gives you benefits equivalent to the minimum required by law in the average european country.
California should be a diff color
Disagree, but I do hope for California to become a seperate country after which they deserve to be a seperate data entry in a graph about countries.
workers taking Paid Family Leave are eligible for up to 8 weeks of benefits, plus 4 weeks before birth for expecting mothers.
I’m saying it’s not a country, but I’m happy for people in California they get paid maternity leave
What happend to Melania fighting for this? Dropped that quick in the first admin. Hell, even Matt Gaetz came out in favor and was working on it. Again, dropped fast.
Owner class will not permit middling level regime whores to permit these women any down time from wage slavery.
Not in my America, boy
We have a loophole for maternity leave in America
If you’re rich you can have the rest of your life off
Rules only apply to the poors
fortunately the new US president is respectful of the working class, he’s going to change all these unfair rules!
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Same loophole exists elsewhere too
True, but the US has the type of inequality where that is genuinely feasible for like the 10%.
do other places not have even 10% or do they have more than 10%?
Americans think rich people don’t exist elsewhere.
that can’t be right ? anyone from the US care to confirm this ? even for them it sounds absurd
In NY any private company with more than 100 employees is required to provide 12 weeks of protected time off to mothers,fathers and adoptive parents. The state collects an extra paid leave tax from our payroll that pays around 70% of your salary while youre out. You have 1 calendar year from birth/adoption to use the leave
Nice ! what about companies with fewer than 100 employees, do you have any idea ?
As far as I know there is no requirement for them. I assume based on the hardship to absorb the workload
It’s by federal/national level. Most states have some form of it. You can surely guess which ones don’t.
How many states actually provide paid leave?
Looks like 10. California, Washington, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, New York, Delaware, Jersey, Illinois.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/paid-maternity-leave-by-state
Certainly not “most states”, so you’re right to be skeptical.
surely the ones where there’s the most freedom. Careful about implying causation, though. could be a fluke
There is no federal law guaranteeing maternity leave in the USA. We have a law that you have to provide … I want to say 12? … Weeks unpaid leave for new mothers but that’s pretty much it. They may be able to claim short term disability for some time they’re out of work which is half your income not all of it.
Some individual states may have protections in their laws but it’s certainly not the norm. It really comes down to the company you work for. I work for a nice company. They gave me 10 weeks paid leave for parental leave, which is even more rare here for any kind of paternity leave (I’m a dude).
It’s pretty sad honestly.
Thanks for the additional info, I am bit shocked tbf. Good that your company seems decent in that regard
As a person who lives in the USA even I am shocked constantly at how fucked up things really are here.
Then you have people who rejoice that we have the “freedom” for companies to fuck you and they bend over to take it with a smile. They’re the worst. Lumpenproletariat
I learned a word ! cheers
Interesting, I thought Hungary had more. You get paid until the end of the third year, but in the last it’s minimal, people usually return after 2. Maybe the source is different
Shithole country.
Best advice I can give you. Start slacking at work. Not enough to get in trouble or fired. Just a little bit here and there and expand on it when you can at intervals… That’s what I started doing and it makes my life just a little bit better. Why work your fingers to the bone for a shithole country that can’t even give us the things other 1st world countries have? We’re being taken advantage of. So start taking some advantage back.
I feel like when I started slacking my boss became happier with my performance. Maybe I’m just happier and taking time to realize it now, but I got a better bonus for last year than the year before and I really didn’t do all that much last year.
Japan has it (and, more recently, paternity leave), but using it can be harder. Old companies try to pull all kinds of BS to deny it or change the woman’s job or such. It’s getting better and enforcement is cracking down but, as with all things here, it moves slowly.
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Right, north Korea has paid maternity leave; I TOTALLY believe that. (I don’t actually fucking believe that)
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That much I can believe but not north Korea.
In Lithuania, it’s 72 days before scheduled birth and 56 days after, fully paid on day of entering maternal leave.
After that, one of the parents can go into long-term maternal leave of 18 or 24 months, at around 70% of pay.
In addition to that, the spouse who isn’t taking that vacation can have 2 months off until the child turns 3.
Who down voted this? People who want women working no matter what? Maybe they will allow an extra hour at lunch to go have the babay, as long as the hour is docked from the paycheck?
If you’re not churning out widgets for your employer with an aching vagina and handing your newborn over to someone else to care for, what good are you? Your’e an expense and a liability unless you’re making someone above you richer. All this country wants is to monetize you until you’re not worth it, then hope you die quick.
Australia is 22 weeks at minimum wage by the government. Most businesses also offer an additional 12 weeks at full wage. You can take up to a year off without your employer being able to take issue.
WTF Papua New Guinea?! Get with the 21st Century.
I think you mean government mandated paid maternity leave. In America, companies themselves decide the leave they want to give their employees.
Is it right? No. But the framing is disingenuous and implies no one in the US EVER gets maternity leave EVER, and that’s not true.
Disagree. It’s clearly gov mandated leave, companies can do whatever they want above the minimum in any country.