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So women have the opportunity to give birth and raise children in a safe, welcoming society, so you have a healthy population and grandkids around to pay for el
by marquis 13y ago
So women have the opportunity to give birth and raise children in a safe, welcoming society, so you have a healthy population and grandkids around to pay for elderly social services? Is 'paying it forward' anathema?
- yummyfajitas 13y agoWhy should companies who hire a larger number of women bear a disproportionate portion of these costs?
- sentenza 13y agoYou are aware that it's not the company that pays the wage compensation during the maternity leave? At least here in Germany, you get 60% of your salary (up to an upper limit) for 12 months (14 if both parents take part of the leave) _from the state_. These schemes are usually designed in such a way that they are either cost-neutral or beneficial to companies that employ women.
- yummyfajitas 13y agoYou are aware that there are still costs for keeping non-producing employees around, right? For example, either their work goes undone, or else you need to hire someone who might become superfluous if they return. In the meantime their skills might atrophy or they may become unnecessary (but getting rid of them in this case is legally risky). (The latter is not hypothetical - I know of a specific case, namely a large but shrinking company that is firing everyone who is either below average or has been pregnant recently. )
- furyg3 13y agoSo you support firing someone who is pregnant? There are costs for using humans to do your work. Sometimes they get sick, sometimes they get pregnant, sometimes they have a super-productive day and sometimes they don't.
- yummyfajitas 13y agoI don't think companies should be obligated to give people the choice to vanish from the workforce and return a year later to an equal or better job. I would also enjoy the option to take a year off and have a job when I return (for other life choices than having children), I just don't see why my employer should be obligated to hold my job open.
- furyg3 13y agoI'm not prescribing what the duration should be, surely there is some middle ground between zero and a year. Where I am currently living (NL) it is a few months (three I believe), happily paid for by the taxpayers. Where I lived before (US-CA) it was a few weeks of partially paid leave, paid by the employer. I'm also not completely convinced that the weeks surrounding a childbirth are the most productive working weeks.