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Re:Without parental leave I might be dead by brazzy on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:09AM (#29227541)
> Even if the federal government picks up the bill, it's still a discontinuity in business, something an employer would want to avoid.

IMO this as well is something where the DevOps slogan "if it hurts, do it more often" should be applied.

The "discontinuity" of an employee leaving temporarily with months of warning in advance is the easy case. If that is a serious problem for your business, it's a failure of company culture and management. How would you deal with the "Hit by a bus" scenario?

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Re:Without parental leave I might be dead by yeetman21 on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:26PM (#29233704)
I don't think your analogy is a good one. Women go on maternity leave, not men. So if one group of people are the only ones who get hit by busses, and are in-fact expected to be hit by busses, who in their right mind would hire them?
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Re:Without parental leave I might be dead by brazzy on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @02:35PM (#29245362)
Men are not invincible robots. They get sick, they quit. They may even gasp like to take paternity leave.

If your organziation isn't shitty, so you can handle a woman taking maternity leave, you also won't get fucked by people getting sick, and can offer paternity leave and sabbatical options to help you attract employees which, newsflash, has recently become rather difficult.

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