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[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]

I wonder if you’re going to get the result you want. I think there’s a segment of the workforce that will like this but I don’t see it as universal by any means and I think a lot of people are going to resent it. I also think it’s going to be tough for a small organization to actually provide this. [/quote]

No one is going to resent this policy, any more than they resent the leave provided for those who get cancer or get into a car accident.  Every developed country in the world has paid maternity leave except for the US and the outcomes for babies are better as a result. If someone argues that we shouldn’t have maternity leave because others will be resentful, I honestly don’t know what to tell you.  If you don’t care about how our country’s children grow up we don’t have a difference in policy, we have a difference in morality (and I say this as someone whose childbearing years are past her.)[/quote]

It depends a lot on how it is implemented.  If the work is just loaded onto people with full workloads then it can cause resentment.  If it gives people a chance to do new or interesting projects that they wouldn't otherwise get to do,  then that's a positive.  I certainly think staying home with an infant is a lot harder than working, so I am not going to resent anyone for getting paid for that, but being asked to do double work is another thing entirely...[/quote]

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