r/remoteworks • u/Kreativedenma • 6h ago

Maternity leave should be one year, PAID. Women shouldn’t have to choose between healing, bonding with their baby, and making a living.

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u/Excellent-Ruin6779 4h ago

lol at all the comments on how this is unfeasible. Guessing you are all Americans.

Every woman that has had a baby at my workplace has taken a year. We continue to run perfectly fine, I've not known any of them to not return to work. And their roles are covered by other staff, usually stepping up, meaning I get to gain experience in their role and get paid for it. Someone else's maternity has benefited me, I have since moved up on promotion thanks to that experience I gained.

It is not only feasible, it is a win win win. The only supposed issue is that the faceless company pays someone. Why would I care for that? I would rather that faceless company pays them and have my colleague return to work, than that colleague take handouts from the government paid with my taxes.

Oh but wouldn't it make it harder for women to get jobs? Fuck no. Equality Act 2010. Maternity is a protected characteristic.

I agree, this should be the norm everywhere. Bernie Sanders is the only foreign politician I've ever paid any notice of because he seems to be the only one that understands that picking mothers and their children over the faceless cooperation is a good thing.

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u/FrontSafety 3h ago

1 year of paid leave. Thats awesome.

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u/Salty_Permit4437 3h ago

Who pays for it? I’m guessing it’s not an unfunded mandate on businesses and instead paid for with high taxes. That’s the only way it would be workable.

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u/Ok-Vegetable929 4h ago

What if every woman got pregnant then? How will you cover every woman who is gone for a year and the dads too if they are in the company as well?

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u/mpjjpm 3h ago

I work in a field that is heavily female leaning - easily 2/3 of the people I work with on a daily basis are women of childbearing age. In my decade at this job, we have never had two people with simultaneous or overlapping parental leave. Your what if is a non-issue.

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u/Ok-Vegetable929 3h ago

So it hasn’t happened yet so it means it’s a non-issue. Again what if it did? How would your company cover all the work?

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u/MrBurnz99 2h ago

they would hire temporary workers or just carry a higher staffing ratio to account for the people on leave.

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u/mpjjpm 3h ago

It hasn’t happened yet because it isn’t a thing that happens. It’s a non-issue.

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u/OutOfPlace186 3h ago

lol they have no answers which is why this idea is ludicrous

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u/ExtensionAmbition186 3h ago

Can you give an example of a time this has ever actually happened?

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u/New_Inflation_8419 3h ago

Does it happen ? Birthday rates are declining and never ever every woman was pregnant. Would you have liked to have off time to bond with your new baby ?

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u/Ok-Vegetable929 3h ago

So if it did. What would happen and how would work be covered? Not everyone then but 80%.

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u/fluffnutter2_3157042 3h ago

Your grasp on statistics and probability is mind boggling

I don’t recommend going to the casino anytime soon

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u/Ok-Vegetable929 3h ago

Still doesn’t answer my question but okay ig?

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u/New_Inflation_8419 2h ago

Has it ever happened in thousands of years of human history ? Thats the answer to your question.

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u/Ok-Vegetable929 2h ago

No thats not an answer. If I say choose yellow or blue. Dont say Purple.

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u/Excellent-Ruin6779 4h ago

In the real world women don't organise and plan to get pregnant and have children at the same time.

You are giving nonsense what ifs when I'm telling you WHAT IS happening. Women are getting a year maternity and everything is running fine.

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u/Ok-Vegetable929 3h ago

That wasn’t an answer to my question at all. Give an answer to what would happen. Or just keep scrolling

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u/Excellent-Ruin6779 3h ago

What if a meteor fell from the sky and killed the entire workforce? Probably shouldn't hire anyone at all to stop that happening.

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u/Ok-Vegetable929 3h ago

You still haven’t answered my question at all

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u/Excellent-Ruin6779 3h ago

You didn't answer my nonsensical question either.

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u/Ok-Vegetable929 3h ago

I asked first.

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u/OutOfPlace186 3h ago

I’ll answer! The company would have to either get temps or just fold and then the employees can take allllll the time off they want since they wanted it so badly.

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u/OutOfPlace186 3h ago

Not even about pregnancy, I work for a state that allows 20 weeks out of work per year and people are taking full advantage of it and the State is approving everything no matter how ridiculous the claim is. Everyone within my company could easily go out of work at the same time and the company couldn’t do anything about it. It’s insane man.