Scarlett - my SIL is a doctor and was told she could have the normal year paid leave and a second year unpaid. I'd never heard of people being able to have two years but apparently that was the option given to her.
Scarlett - my SIL is a doctor and was told she could have the normal year paid leave and a second year unpaid. I'd never heard of people being able to have two years but apparently that was the option given to her.
I think that it depends who you work for Sarzy.
"I don't know what I am to them, maybe a penguin XD" - Tiny Pixie
^ Yeah it must do. It seems a long time to hold a position open for someone but it's good that they do.
I think that NHS trusts & the Govt are quite good like that, but I don't think that they guarantee that you nec get the "same" job back just that it's commensurate with what you had before (give of take a job share). National Govt will let anyone take a "career break" which can be a year or so (unpaid) for medical, study, or other purposes.
"I don't know what I am to them, maybe a penguin XD" - Tiny Pixie
It varies with not only state but with businessess. In Texas, FMLA protects your job for 12 weeks but guarantees no pay. In 2011, I was eligible for Short Term Disability. That was based on how long I'd been with the company - I think I got 4 weeks at 100% pay, then I got 4 weeks at 80% and could have got 60% for 17 weeks. Fuck that, I can't live on 60%! And with the company I work for, 4 weeks is the maximum you will get at 100% - no matter how long you're here. The weeks you get 80% goes up 1 week for each year of "dedicated service"... *eyeroll is implied* You have to be with the company five years to get that first week at 80%. For example, if you've been with the company 1 year, you get 1 week at 100% and then you can get 24 weeks at 60%. The gist of it is that you have 26 weeks (ONLY) to get your shit together. I went back to work after 8 weeks, I honestly could have gone back earlier because these weren't my babies but... I deserved a little rest...
I was around babies my whole life and maybe there's something wrong with me but it wasn't hard. I expected worse from the whole experience starting with labor. Now, that the snowflake is going to be 15, things are harder - but STILL not as hard as I expected. And not as hard as some people painted it up to be for me. I guess watching my mom struggle with 6 kids really made me appreciative of my one.. and I damn well KNEW I didn't want no damn house full.
Kill him.
Kill her.
Kill It.
Kill everything... that IS the solution!
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I didn't find my babies to be particularly hard work. Actually, I think the baby years are the easy part. Just wait until the kid is a teenager with a shitty attitude or a lazy 20yo with no job still lying around at home doing nothing and then get back to me.
i'm no expert, but to me, taking care of my twins for the first four months after they were born were the hardest thing i've ever done.
it got progressively easier after that. yeah, there are times when it's hard, but overall, pretty manageable. i will probably sing a different tune when they are adolescents. and i'm sure NickiDrea will also have an opinion about this . . ..
And some babies are easier than others. They have different personalities from the beginning.
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything." -- Charles Darwin
"Trump is, in my opinion, the first woman president of the United States." -- Roseanne Barr
I am employed by the state of Texas, and during my 12 weeks of maternity leave, I got exactly two benefits-- Jack and Shit.
Santa is an elitist mother fucker -- giving expensive shit to rich kids and nothing to poor kids.
That'll teach you for being Texan!
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything." -- Charles Darwin
"Trump is, in my opinion, the first woman president of the United States." -- Roseanne Barr
You're quite rightwhen I was in local govt we did 6 months 11/12ths pay, 3 months half, then the remainder no pay.
I find it kind of horrifying that the US doesn't have something on maternity leave, how is a woman supposed to feel job security while she has a child? Totally backwards if you ask me.
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I always figured it would be hard to have and raise children. I never had them because I'm selfish and didn't want to give up my ME time.
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^^^ giving up the 'me' time is hard, no doubt about that.
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