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Maternity leave is not remote working. Women should have the right to take lengthy maternity leaves without the fear of corporate ostracizing.
by merinid 14y ago
Maternity leave is not remote working. Women should have the right to take lengthy maternity leaves without the fear of corporate ostracizing.
- goodwink 14y agoHaving a nursery built next to your office is not maternity leave, it's a work-life balance perk that she's affording herself which isn't available to other Yahoos.
- cafard 14y agoWell, no, but neither is her compensation. If the board thinks her compensation inappropriate, it can deal with it.
- hvs 14y agoUnlike all those other perks that executives receive that other employees don't?
- dfxm12 14y agoThe context of the situation is important, in the wake of her recent decision about working from home.
- Muzza 14y ago> Women should have the right to take lengthy maternity leaves And the cost should be borne by single men.
- DannoHung 14y agoYeah, dudes who intend to never reproduce should get some sort of tax credit as long as they submit to a sterilization procedure.
- cafard 14y agoAnd promise never to collect Social Security...
- Kototama 14y agoSingle men who never had a mother then.
- calinet6 14y agoSmall price to pay for the continuation of the species. Quit your whining. Maybe they should build a nursery for the single men, too.
- zorpner 14y agoScrew you, seriously. You want to remove childbearers from the workforce? You want to reduce everyone's employment experiences by diminishing the market of employees and ideas? You want your ten bucks a year so that you can say you don't support single mothers (note -- extensive public health research demonstrates that productivity and well-being of women of child-bearing age is the best indicator of the overall health of a society)? Why should society give you anything at all? Why should my tax dollars go towards protecting you from crime, or paying your emergency room bills? And I mean you, specifically, not people in general -- if you don't want to contibute to make everyone's lot better, why should anyone give a crap about you, or for that matter your opinions?
- Muzza 14y agoI see I hit a sore spot. I don't really want to remove childbearers from the workforce, but I do want a frank discussion about who bears the costs. Actually, just an admission of the inherent injustice of the system would be nice. Ten bucks a year? Screw you. I pay roughly 70% of my income in taxes every year. And holy thoughtcrime Batman! Despite paying tens of thousands of dollars every year in taxes, all government services should be denied to me just because of my opinions? http://mises.org/daily/2485 http://mises.org/daily/2485
- jrs235 14y agoThe tax credits and possible cost of guaranteed time off with pay for having children is nothing compared to the immense cost of raising children that will pay future taxes to allow for the continuance of government and government services.
- skore 14y agoComments like this make me think that the cost should indeed be borne by single men, exclusively.
- jerf 14y ago"Women should have the right to take lengthy maternity leaves without the fear of corporate ostracizing." They do in the US: http://fmlaonline.com/fmla-pregnancy/ http://fmlaonline.com/fmla-pregnancy/ Before you reply with potential handwaving theoretical issues with it, bear in mind I am answering your point as written: They do indeed have the right to take leave without fear. It may be infringed, but it does exist and redress is available if infringement can be proved to a judge's satisfaction.
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- bitcartel 14y agoThe ban on remote working will hurt the moms and dads of Yahoo the most. - The US is the only industrialized nation not to mandate paid leave for mothers of newborns - The US is one of only three nations — the other two being Papua New Guinea and Swaziland - that doesn't guarantee job-protected time off with some amount of income after the birth of a child - New parents in the U.S. are guaranteed their jobs for 12 weeks after the arrival of a new baby, thanks to the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, but they do not have to be paid during that time and exemptions apply for small companies. - Only two states in the country, California and New Jersey, offer six weeks of paid family leave to men and women who are caregivers. Unfortunately, the state leaves are not job-guaranteed - Afghanistan provide new mothers with 12 weeks off with pay. The Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the poorest nations in the world, offers mothers 15 weeks off with full pay. - UK provides 90% pay for 280 days, Russia 100% pay for 140 days, Spain & France & Netherlands 100% pay for 112 days, Germany 100% pay for 98 days, China 100% pay for 90 days [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/04/maternity-leave-paid-parental-leave-_n_2617284.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/04/maternity-leave-pai... [2] http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/why-paid-leave-could-pass-in-obamas-second-term-americans-want-it/265831/ http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/why-paid-le... [3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2012/05/23/3-reasons-why-card-carrying-capitalists-should-support-paid-family-leave/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2012/05/23/3-re...