Without parental leave I might be dead

Re:Without parental leave I might be dead by rsj_hn on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:53AM (#29227360)

> I believe parental leave should be provided, but I don't see how anyone expects employers to shoulder the burden of providing paid parental (in reality maternity)

It is always citizens that shoulder the burden one way or another.

    Self:  Pay with your own savings
    Firm:  Pay with higher prices and lower wages 
    State: Pay with higher taxes paid to the state

If you ask me, option 3) seems to distribute the pain to the most people, which does mean that singles who never get pregnant will be paying you to take leave, and most likely the benefits will be capped so that high earners don't get 100% of their wages, and those who don't work much the year before may get some average of salary earned, nevertheless I'm OK subsidizing fertility like this.

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Re:Without parental leave I might be dead by MandieD on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:03PM (#29234112)

That’s the deal here in Germany (taxes pay for parental leave), and I was ok with it, in a high-minded “it’s good for the children” way despite looking like I was just going to be on the paying-for-it side.

Fast forward to a rather late “happy accident”, and I thank whatever compelled me to move here soon after college.

Would I have saved more than the 18k EUR in parental leave pay had I been on even a non-SV US tech salary with US-only taxes? Yes.

Would I have had a whole work and regulatory culture around me that guaranteed that I could take that year, and come back to my choice of part-time schedule for the same type of work? No.

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Re:Without parental leave I might be dead by lotsofpulp on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:03AM (#29227467)

Unless the singles are OK with no one coming to clean their bed pan, then it is not just pain for them.

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