> With a good parental leave system, any business no matter how small must be ready for any employee to disappear for 3-12 months. It’s just the reality of runn

> With a good parental leave system, any business no matter how small must be ready for any employee to disappear for 3-12 months. It’s just the reality of running a business. But again (and this is what’s important) if it’s universally used then the same applies to the restaurant across the street too! It’s not a competitive disadvantage. Except it is because your business is the one that hired the young woman and the other business did not, so now you have 4 people working for a year and the other business has 5 at the same cost. For small businesses, if this is not tax funded, this is a huge liability and an incentive to discriminate when hiring.