I'd love to know what companies are offering 20 weeks of paid leave. I don't doubt they exists. But that is not the reality for 99% of US workers. Heck, an alarming number of new parents have ZERO protected unpaid leave. |
Does your company offer 20 weeks now and you’re bitter you missed out or something? Also a 20-week old isn’t a newborn, they’re an infant. Honestly I feel sorry for people like you that brood over this kind of stuff. I didn’t get paid parental leave either and I’m glad it’s slowly becoming more widespread. |
Who is we? The US has zero paid leave. Does the OP even have paid leave, or is their job just being held until they get back? Does it even matter? You can bond with a baby in literally any location. Maternity leave is not *just* for physical recovery, bonding (even the narrow definition you have for it), it's so that the parents don't have to be away from their baby for 8+ hours a day. |
Also what you're describing sounds more like short-term disability, which is ABSOLUTELY NOT paid parental leave. It's the bare minimum that employers offer. |
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