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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you started a job while you were pregnant (ie gave birth before working there for 12 months), how did you handle parental leave? Were you still offered leave and it was unpaid? Or were you refused leave altogether?

We're TTC and I was just offered a job. I'm not currently working.[b] All the potential employer has told me about parental leave is that eligible employees can take leave under DCFMLA.[/b] If I got pregnant now, I obviously won't have been there a year, so I wouldn't qualify.

I'm not sure whether I should ask HR about how they handle parental leave when employees haven't been there a year? Maybe it's what I have to do, but it feels kind of icky that I have to essentially admit to some random HR person that I'm hoping/trying to have another kid in the next 12 months. I don't really want to wait until I start the job to have this conversation, because I don't want to be in a position where they tell me that I can't take leave, or that I have to burn my PTO (which would be a few weeks). [/quote]
Those are your benefits - they’ve told you they don’t have a standalone parental leave benefit. Once eligible, you would receive the paid benefit and the rest unpaid but protected by DCFMLA. In DC you cannot be forced to use your PTO for the unpaid time of DCFMLA.

I agree with the PP. You don’t have a job and aren’t pregnant. Stop worrying about something that doesn’t yet exist. If you otherwise like this job take it. You’re unemployed- can you continue to be and keep looking while continuing to TTC? Most employers won’t extend their paid benefits before an employee has been at the company for 1 year.[/quote]

OP here - yes, I can continue to be unemployed. DH makes enough that it's not an issue. I left my job less than a year ago because I needed the time to take care of some family stuff. Now that i'm looking again, I'm not super worried about getting other offers if I turn this one down, since I have other irons in the fire. I have recruiters reaching out to me, have a strong network, etc.

I totally get that most employers don't extend their parental leave benefits to people who haven't been there for a year, but obviously people get pregnant/have babies all the time, and they haven't all been with their employers for a year. I asked this question because I'm curious what other people in the same situation have done. That's all![/quote]

Employers have policies that apply to all employees.  If you do not meet the qualifications why should you get special treatment?  It sounds as though you work as a hobby and not as a career or need the money.  I would never hire you [/quote]

I’m actually laughing out loud. Wild assumptions, check; extreme condescension, check; a little bit of good old fashioned misogyny, check. Every time I post on DCUM I assume I’ll get some of this, but not necessarily all in post! Well done![/quote]

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