Pregnant and Just Accepted Tentative AUSA Offer

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Anonymous wrote:1) I would’ve waited until I was on leave at current firm. Or 2) I would’ve request paid leave as part of your acceptance. But since none of that was done, you don’t have a lot of options other than telling them you don’t want to start until X date or requesting whatever they’ll give you. They don’t legally have to give you anything outside of the standard disability, which would suck since lawyers usually get a bajillion weeks of paid leave.

Yeah you don’t know how any of this actually works.

lol I actually *did this* just two years ago and negotiated a 4 month paid maternity leave starting week 2. Try again!

I assume this was at a private sector job, right? With the fed, job applicants can’t negotiable for 4 months of paid parental leave. Employees can get 3 months and the agency can waive the 1 year employment requirement in a few different scenarios. However, my experience with the federal government is that you should accept the job, then say you want to request an exception to policy or waiver.