> Where does that happen? In Poland for example. National Social Insurance pays you 80% of your salary for up to half a year of maternity/paternity leave. Addi

> Where does that happen? In Poland for example. National Social Insurance pays you 80% of your salary for up to half a year of maternity/paternity leave. Additionally mothers often abuse the system and ask a doctor to say their pregnancy is threathened, so they are on a sick leave for months before birth. It doesn't directly incur additional costs for the employer, but it's still making 20-35 y.o. women with less than 2 children slightly less attractive on the marketplace because training an employee just to have her disappear for a year or 2 is a big overhead. Of course - employers can't officially discriminate basing on age/gender/number of children, but you can't prove they do, so whatever.