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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]* Gender-neutral paid leave for new parents of new children (includes biological, adopted and foster)
* Six months total: 3 months fully paid, 3 months of partially paid leave or return to work for 3 months part-time with full-time pay
* Same for medical leave
* 1 month caregiving leave

We’re a small org (less than 50 people), but they’re very serious about diversifying their staff and especially leadership and I told them
this is how you do it.[/quote]

As a parent of a kid with a life threatening illness, it seems hugely unfair that you get 4.5 months for having a healthy baby, and 1 month if your child is diagnosed with cancer.  [/quote]
Not OP, but... you would get 1 month in addition to the maternity leave that you got when your baby was born, if the policy was in effect at the time.

Seems fair to me. And I’m sorry that you’re going through this. I can’t even imagine. [/quote]

I'm sorry, I'm not following your logic.  You feel that because I might have gotten 4.5 months of maternity leave 9 years ago when my kid was born, if I'd been working for the same company when my kid was born, I should be fine with 1 month now?

Or are you assuming that only newborns get sick?

I think that we need paid maternity leave in this country, but as part of a comprehensive package of medical leave.  The idea that needing to be with your baby is one kind of need that families have and that privileging it over other needs is unfair.

I think the FMLA guidelines for what qualifies for leave are decent, and that a company would do well to cover the same amount of leave for anything that FMLA covers.  (e.g. if you decide that all those conditions are worth 3 months of pay or 6 months of pay or whatever, that seems reasonable).  But to cover all of someone's FMLA with pay, plus another 1.5 months worth of time, and then to over a small portion of other people's FMLA seems unfair.  [/quote]
Pretty sure after OP talks to a lawyer, she will face this reality.[/quote]
What exactly do you think a lawyer is going to say? It’s not discriminatory to offer less time for caregiver leave.[/quote]

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