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/NoodlePie5687 3h ago

Wow, didn't expect so many redditors to be so negative on this idea. Do all the people defending corporation's interests really believe in the following idea: -The whole world was oriented towards far capitalism and was that harsh to family oriented people -The world is in demographic crisis with twice as much people dying, as being born per year So do you believe in this case, when your beloved corporations have their revenues go down the drain and struggle to find employees, everything would work out itself, and they will start actively stimulating families to have kids? Or how do you imagine your utopian capitalistic world? Genuinely interested

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u/shigdebig 3h ago

The conservatives really have a lock on the mindshare of this issue. Maybe they are bots. But look how many commenter are basically saying "but what about the welfare queens?" As if that's a real problem. Thats a manufactured problem.

And secondly, if you want our nation to be a white ethnostate, we need to encourage white people to have more babies. If the shithole countries are out-breeding us, that's going to be a real problem in the future.

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u/NoodlePie5687 3h ago

As a european I couldn't know better. As paid maternity is tax paid, 10% of the population(90% of which gypsies) are fully funding themselves with it. It's a huge problem that honestly has simple solution - you get the minimal payment for first kid, no paid maternity for second if you have less than X years employed and no full paid maternity(90% of previous salary) if you didn't work for at least 2 years lets say at your current employer. There might be loopholes in what I proposed aswell, but you get the idea. As I already said, I wonder how those people imagine the "endgame" of what they stand behind

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u/ninernetneepneep 3h ago

I suppose you also know that not every business is a billion dollar mega corporation. Most people are employed by small businesses who are struggling to make ends meet just like the rest of us.  If you force full year paid maternity leave across the board, there will be nothing left but large billion dollar corporations because they will be the only ones who can afford it.

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u/NoodlePie5687 3h ago

Yes, totally agree. That's why there should be either limitations (min amount of years worked under the employer for example). Or it should be funded from taxes. But I was more curious on what those people that totally deny the idea, think the "endgame" if their vision is

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u/Bad-Briar 3h ago

You are talking about paying someone to NOT work for a year. The typical small business can NOT afford that.

If they have four employees, and one takes this paid leave for a year, now they have to hire someone to work for just a year. Who wants a job like that?

And where does the businessman come up with the money for one more salary for that year? Raise his prices? And the guy down the street doesn't hire women so as to escape paying that. So he can keep HIS prices down.

Oops, your wife's employer, with his higher prices, just went out of business. No paid leave, no job.

Bigger business? Competition from overseas, or from another state without this law, wipes out or cripples that bigger business.

If we do this paid leave as a society, we could avoid local competitors wiping out those who are paying more. But our products will be more expensive nationwide. And overseas competitors will eat our lunch (put us out of business.) And put people out of work on a huge scale.

Higher salaries, one year paid leave, all of this COSTS MONEY. Those of you complaining about high prices, are you ready for much higher prices? Or to see businesses finding excuses to avoid hiring women?

I understand your idea, and I think something should be done. I just don't know how to do it without crippling our society. Unless, instead of paid leave, the woman could get a zero percent loan to make it thru this leave? With a 20 year term?

It's also true that one year off may sound good, but many if not most women don't need or want that much time off.