POLL: maternity leave

alaggie07 · October 2009

What kind of maternity leave does your work offer?

How long do you have paid leave?

alaggie07 · October 2009

I have just been thinking about this lately mostly because we would probably be having kids sooner rather than later if my work had a better maternity leave. I work for a small company that makes us use or 2 weeks vacation for the leave. It is good that he lets us work from home and be in and out of the office when the baby is newborn as long as you work 32 hours a week you get paid your salary. We have 2 out of town weddings to go to next year (I am matron of honor in both) which eats up vacation time. Which means no baby for another year or so...

vhcoleman09 · October 2009

I was actually trying to figure this out last Friday. The person I needed to talk to in HR wasn't in the office so I spoke with someone else who said she "wasn't sure" but she thinks that I'd have to use up my sick leave (right now, I have about 52 hours left), then use up all my personal/vacation time (which will be used up by June, I'm sure), then I can take short-term disability and get a percentage (she wasn't sure of the % but thought it was 60%) of my paycheck up to the point where the doctor says it's okay to return to work. I think the max might be 6 weeks for that. Then anything after that, up to 12 weeks, I can take off unpaid (due to FMLA).

RedZee · October 2009

I'm a PhD student and technically I think I get maternity leave - but i better be finished with my thesis by the time any baby arrives! Once I'm a postdoc, I think I'd get leave but since I don't have a job lined up, I really don't know much about. I think C, whose a teacher in a public school, gets 6 weeks if we need it. Either way, my schedule would be flexible so I'm not worried right now.

shagadelk7 · October 2009

I work for a relatively big, well known company and our maternity benefits are TERRIBLE. Basically all we get (the only reason I know this is bc a girl on our finance team is due next month) is 6 weeks at 50% of our paycheck and the option of being out another 6 weeks, but without pay. IMO its absolutely ridiculous, but thankfully, it definitely won't have any effect on me.

mbd62709 · October 2009

Our maternity leave stinks. We get 6 weeks paid (which they take from our sick time). If we don't have 6 weeks time, then we have to ask co-workers to dontae their sick time or we don't get paid for whatever we lack. We can also take up to 12 weeks unpaid using FMLA.

alaggie07 · October 2009

Wow. That blows my mind, you have 6 weeks worth of sick days. We have 2 weeks vacation (10 work days) and three sick days. THATS IT! Like I said though its a small company and they are pretty understanding on sick days and dr. appointments. But that would awesome knowing you have 6 weeks. I barely get that is 2 years!

jessnjason · October 2009

I honestly have never asked about this at my current employer but with previous employer it was up to 12 weeks no pay. Sick/vacation days were not even given to us anyway so what wasn't there couldn't be used.

hopscotch. · October 2009

Not that I'm looking to get pregnant anytime soon, but I'm in HR, so I know what we get...

We get 3 months paid maternity leave...in addition, we get 27 days of paid time off that can be used for sick leave or vacation. I rarely use mine for sick days since I work from home, so when the time eventually comes...and what most people here do, is save up their PTO - so you can end up having an additional month or more of paid time off on top of the 3 months.

mofe · October 2009

No clue. I work for my FIL so I guess when that becomes an issue we'll figure it out!

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