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Maternity Leave Policy- What's yours?
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Anonymous
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Another law firm associate here -- 3 months paid at 100%. There's some flexibility if more time is needed, but I'm not sure what the specific policy is. Most law firms provide either 3 or 4 months at 100% pay.
I've also heard that Google provides 5 months of paid leave. |
Anonymous
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0 paid days.
can take up to 12wks. |
Anonymous
| I can't believe how many of you have to elect for STD during open enrollment. So if you get pregnant right after the election period closes, you're screwed. Do you have to pay for the benefit too? |
Anonymous
This was what happened to me. Thankfully I have 4 weeks of PTO and sick days accrued. We have to pay for STD and LTD during open enrollment. |
Anonymous
I wish my DH got anything near that! He works for a govt contractor and he gets a whopping one day of "paternity leave". Gimmie a break... On my end, I work for a small, family owned, 14 person investor relations firm in DC. We get up to 60 business days of leave: 20 days fully paid by the company and the remainder can be sick or vacation days or you can use short term disability at 60% pay. When compared to others, it seems quite generous, but I think that is the benefit of a family-owned business. |
Anonymous
| 60-person non-profit. Accrued leave at full pay and then remainder of leave at two-thirds pay. We are in D.C., so can take up to six weeks of medical leave for a standard vaginal birth, plus up to 16 weeks of family leave on top of that. |
Anonymous
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Large DC based non-profit. 4 weeks parental leave (after you've been here for 6 months I think), regardless of sex of parent, or means of acquisition of child. Can use accumulated AL and SL for remaining DC FMLA.
Used to work for NY based for profit ed company that was 12 weeks paid after 1 year of employment. |
Anonymous
| This is just disgusting me!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew it was bad but not this bad (the people who have posted on here have good jobs, too!). I am a Big Law attorney - the previous posters are correct. We are extremely lucky. 16-18 weeks full pay under the STD policy. Usually we also get the ability to take addition unpaid time off with no probelm (6 months for the first baby is not uncommon). Keep in mind that we sell our souls for this policy (kidding, but I think that Big Law attorneys work comparatively more hours and tend to have a tough time going back to work b/c of the schedule). |
Anonymous
| International organization (about 2500 people, about 30 percent women). 3 months paid maternity leave. Can also take any accumulated annual leave (I have about 3 months worth at the moment). Most women take 3-4 months, but some go up to 6 or even a year. (after exhausting annual leave, there is always leave without pay). |
Anonymous
| PP here. Just wanted to add that in the many years I have worked at my organization, I have never heard of a woman not coming back to work after maternity leave. |
Anonymous
| Association with an office in DC. 6/8 weeks depending on the delivery with 5/7 short term disability - the first week is an election period where you use sick/vacation. It is either 65 or 85 percent depending on length of service. I get 85. The remaining leave, up to 16 weeks total under DC law, is unpaid though you can use any accrued leave as week. I have friends that work for large companies that got 14 weeks of paid leave a 100 percent...very generous in my opinion. I'm fortunate that i can take unpaid leave and enjoy these reaming weeks with my baby. |
Anonymous
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Large law firm (just barely AmLaw 100). 18 weeks, full pay. Took another 6 weeks at no pay to extend leave to 6 months.
At my DH's firm, which is much bigger, you also get 18 weeks and most women I knew extend it to 6 months using vacation days (they don't have set sick days). In addition, the firm has a policy that for the first 6 months after leave is over, you can go back at any level of part time. Any. Like, 5% if you want. They also allow you to take an extended leave (up to one or two years; can't remember which) after you can come back to the firm. And during that time, they'll continue to cover bar membership costs (and I think you have access to CLE programs, like PLI). The latter program is actually open to anyone who has a family reason they need to step down for a bit (such as a parent who needs care). Also, men get 6 weeks paternity leave. DH works there and it was AWESOME. |
Anonymous
| I only get paid for my sick days that I have accrued which is about 3 weeks |
Anonymous
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Medium/large sized company with about 180 employees, healthcare. Most of the employees have doctorates.
Maternity leave policy: basically nonexistent. Paid vacation days: None. Sick days: None. STD: You have to enroll during open enrollment season. Pays 33% of your salary for 4 wks. You may take up to 3 months total unpaid. I want to say thank you to the lawyer who posted that she feels disgusted by what she's reading in this thread, and I couldn't agree more... |
Anonymous
| Worked for a large county government on the west coast. I got the 12 weeks of unpaid leave courtesy of FMLA. Unfortunately, before the county would let that kick in I had to use up all of my accrued sick and vacation leave, which came to about 2 months worth. I wanted to use all my FMLA - use it or lose it - so I took off 5 months. I was really nervous going back to work knowing that I had absolutely no sick leave buffer. I can understand having to use up vacation leave but using up the sick leave is insane. I didn't really want to take off 5 months either. Oh well. However, I am super grateful that FMLA was available for me. |