being successful in the us means having a job that gives you benefits equivalent to the minimum required by law in the average european country.
Shithole country.
Best advice I can give you. Start slacking at work. Not enough to get in trouble or fired. Just a little bit here and there and expand on it when you can at intervals… That’s what I started doing and it makes my life just a little bit better. Why work your fingers to the bone for a shithole country that can’t even give us the things other 1st world countries have? We’re being taken advantage of. So start taking some advantage back.
I feel like when I started slacking my boss became happier with my performance. Maybe I’m just happier and taking time to realize it now, but I got a better bonus for last year than the year before and I really didn’t do all that much last year.
In Lithuania, it’s 72 days before scheduled birth and 56 days after, fully paid on day of entering maternal leave.
After that, one of the parents can go into long-term maternal leave of 18 or 24 months, at around 70% of pay.
In addition to that, the spouse who isn’t taking that vacation can have 2 months off until the child turns 3.
”vacation“
Who down voted this? People who want women working no matter what? Maybe they will allow an extra hour at lunch to go have the babay, as long as the hour is docked from the paycheck?
If you’re not churning out widgets for your employer with an aching vagina and handing your newborn over to someone else to care for, what good are you? Your’e an expense and a liability unless you’re making someone above you richer. All this country wants is to monetize you until you’re not worth it, then hope you die quick.
But they want to increase birth rates?
What a pack of fucking idiots.
That was exactly my thought. Guess they’re to busy stoking fear about illegal immigrants rather than fix real problems.
Even if they were competent enough to understand what they need to do to increase the birth rate, their actual answer would be “FEMALES shouldn’t have jobs to begin with”.
Illegal immigrants from countries with more guaranteed paid maternity leave than the US has!
(Yes this is an extremely 1-dimensional lens to look at these extremely complex socioeconomic and geopolitical issues through. What’s not complex is that child birth is a biological process not compatible with the factory oriented 8 hours a day/5 days a week schedule that we’re now stuck on)
And millions of Americans think the reason we don’t have all the things we don’t have that everybody else has, is cuz we have Freedom! and everybody else is oppressed. How did so many people get so brainwashed?
I am so proud the oppression in Canada is this bad, but it can get better.
You should come see when it’s better. Maybe you can stay forever!
It sounds to me that lemmy is full of Canadians, right? 😎 What is the percentage, 50% from Canada (or Canada’ fans at least), 30% from the US and 20% from Europe?
Japan has it (and, more recently, paternity leave), but using it can be harder. Old companies try to pull all kinds of BS to deny it or change the woman’s job or such. It’s getting better and enforcement is cracking down but, as with all things here, it moves slowly.
One does wonder why AmeriKan youth decide to open fire instead of finding a reasonable solution. US labor laws and maternity leave are shit in the supposed wealthiest country in the world.
WTF Papua New Guinea?! Get with the 21st Century.
This map isn’t worth a discussion. I seriously doubt that countries such as Sudan, Bangladesh, and Cambodia have a paid paternity leave. If so, it isn’t worth the paper it’s written upon. In those countries the government shit on worker rights.
This seems to be correct. Sudan, surprisingly does offer paid leave however other countries in Africa, like Zambia, do not offer paid but do offer unpaid (like the US on a Federal level). Map is, indeed, worthless.
https://africa-hr.com/blog/guide-to-parental-leave-in-africa/
Still I doubt those „rights“ are exercised.
It feels like you are coping here dear
It also doesn’t separate states in the US, where they could actually have paid paternity leave. Such as California. Shit that it’s not at a federal level, sure, but it also isn’t like you don’t get it anywhere in the country.
What’s the Cali rule
Up to 12 weeks unpaid, job-protected leave for mothers and fathers. You can get some kind of partial payback for lost wages, but I’m not sure how that works.
If it is unpaid that’s just federal law.
I saw in another comment it was actually paid. I guess I will need do my own DD lol
Brb
https://edd.ca.gov/siteassets/files/pdf_pub_ctr/de8714cf.pdf
It does have a paid program.
Interesting, I thought Hungary had more. You get paid until the end of the third year, but in the last it’s minimal, people usually return after 2. Maybe the source is different
that can’t be right ? anyone from the US care to confirm this ? even for them it sounds absurd
There is no federal law guaranteeing maternity leave in the USA. We have a law that you have to provide … I want to say 12? … Weeks unpaid leave for new mothers but that’s pretty much it. They may be able to claim short term disability for some time they’re out of work which is half your income not all of it.
Some individual states may have protections in their laws but it’s certainly not the norm. It really comes down to the company you work for. I work for a nice company. They gave me 10 weeks paid leave for parental leave, which is even more rare here for any kind of paternity leave (I’m a dude).
It’s pretty sad honestly.
Thanks for the additional info, I am bit shocked tbf. Good that your company seems decent in that regard
As a person who lives in the USA even I am shocked constantly at how fucked up things really are here.
Then you have people who rejoice that we have the “freedom” for companies to fuck you and they bend over to take it with a smile. They’re the worst. Lumpenproletariat
I learned a word ! cheers
It’s by federal/national level. Most states have some form of it. You can surely guess which ones don’t.
How many states actually provide paid leave?
Looks like 10. California, Washington, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, New York, Delaware, Jersey, Illinois.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/paid-maternity-leave-by-state
Certainly not “most states”, so you’re right to be skeptical.
surely the ones where there’s the most freedom. Careful about implying causation, though. could be a fluke
In NY any private company with more than 100 employees is required to provide 12 weeks of protected time off to mothers,fathers and adoptive parents. The state collects an extra paid leave tax from our payroll that pays around 70% of your salary while youre out. You have 1 calendar year from birth/adoption to use the leave
Nice ! what about companies with fewer than 100 employees, do you have any idea ?
As far as I know there is no requirement for them. I assume based on the hardship to absorb the workload
Australia is 22 weeks at minimum wage by the government. Most businesses also offer an additional 12 weeks at full wage. You can take up to a year off without your employer being able to take issue.
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Lol what is this map? We need some fact checking…
Something’s off with it? My country checks out, at least, afaik.
This site seems to back it up too. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/maternity-leave-by-country
Why did they give Norway the Danish flag? And what is up with the flag of Greece?
Looks like they ran out of pixels.
Norway looks fine when I open the site, but Greece is still squished.
