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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To PP above (“‘someone else’” doesn’t pay for it”). I think you misunderstand public services. None of your examples are like maternity leave. Maybe you don’t drive on highways, but this country can’t function without them. The transportation of goods and people is key to our economy. Have you seen a country without highways? Did it seem prosperous to you?  Likewise, public schools aren’t just a service for parents, like you’re doing parents a favor by paying. [b]They are a key component of our democracy.[/b] We all need educated citizens to vote.

You brought up disability insurance. I am not against disability insurance, and I think the way it’s used now to support maternity leave as well as other illnesses is fine. The key is that it supports other situations besides pregnancy, and that is has rules surrounding its use (size of company, etc).

[b]This thread is not about disability insurance. It’s about individual employers (not businesses with 50 or more employees) giving their nannies paid maternity leaves out of their own pocket[/b].[/quote]

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PP, would you pay for highway improvement voluntarily out of your own pocket if you drive on that highway multiple times a day? Nope, it's financed from your taxes. Would you give a check to a public school teacher to supplement their salary? No, that's not your role or responsibility as individual. Same goes for the maternity leave.  Organize, lobby politicians, make it a state priority like in NY or CA. Then it will become a reality. Dumping on individual employers on the internet is misplaced and frankly ridiculous. Placing the burden on families will result in one thing only - fewer jobs for nannies, or lower wages, because the employers would have to figure in double the costs to cover maternity and a substitute nanny.[/quote]

That's a poor comparison.  Hundreds of thousands use a highway.  Public school teachers serve a classroom.  Yet an employer makes a choice to hire a nanny to serve only their family.  That means their employment safety net is you.  Would it be ideal that there is a national insurance system that would cover these leaves for small employers in the future?  Of course, But for now if you're all refusing to pay for a maternity leave for your pregnant nannies, you're pretty cold human beings.  [/quote]

You yourself are very cold, if for all these pages of posts you can't understand that families can't afford it. The only way it works is when there is agreement at the national level (e.g. Canada) or at the state level, as in examples above. Pinning it on a single family doesn't work. What to do if the substitute nanny goes on maternity too? take out a second mortgage? Nope, no dice.[/quote]

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