Re:Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
by dragonwriter on Friday September 07, 2018 @04:17AM
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> If an employee is pregnant, no one is forcing the employee to show up for work. When people talk about maternity leave, they usually don't mean the ability to not show up for work (which is a given in a free society), but rather the obligation of the employer to pay the employee whether or not she shows up for work.
Well, there's two kinds of mandatory maternity leave:
Job protected leave, in which the employee is entitled to be returned to work after their leave, which may or may not be paid, and
Paid leave, in which the employee is entitled to pay while on leave, whether or not they are entitled to return to work (in principle; in practice, mandated paid leave is usually also job protected.).
The US (for some employees of some employers) has federally-guaranteed job protected maternity (and paternity) leave, but no federal mandate for paid leave for either. Some states have additional job protected leave mandates and/or paid leave mandates.
Well, there's two kinds of mandatory maternity leave:
Job protected leave, in which the employee is entitled to be returned to work after their leave, which may or may not be paid, and
Paid leave, in which the employee is entitled to pay while on leave, whether or not they are entitled to return to work (in principle; in practice, mandated paid leave is usually also job protected.).
The US (for some employees of some employers) has federally-guaranteed job protected maternity (and paternity) leave, but no federal mandate for paid leave for either. Some states have additional job protected leave mandates and/or paid leave mandates.