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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely say something to management. If you're a frequent customer, you would notice a pregnant worker who then returned two weeks later. You could ask what the policy is and how "supportive" they are around family rights. You can speak to this in generalities without ever mentioning that you spoke with this worker.

Is this a local store? [/quote]

+1 for this.  Their response probably will be that she is welcome to take leave but it would be unpaid.  Apparently that is the law.

I say apparently because I ran into a similar situation at my work about 10 years ago.  I am a teacher and I work for a large school system in the DMV.  All teachers are allowed to take maternity leave but they are only paid for it if they use their own sick leave.  One of our new teachers had her baby in October and was back to work after three weeks (we receive 15 days of leave at the beginning of the school year).  She used her 15 days and came back.  It was appalling to me and others.  Anyway, it took some doing but one of my colleagues and I were finally (!!!) allowed to donate leave to her so that this young woman could have eight weeks of maternity leave.  It took us two weeks to get the school system to agree that they would ALLOW us to DONATE our leave to her.  The whole thing still makes me crazy!

Anyway, the employee may not have enough leave saved up to take a paid maternity leave.  It completely sucks but apparently it is the law.  You are allowed to take leave but your employer is not required to pay you for it.[/quote]

Hold up! There was no short term disability??? I also work for a large school system (FCPS) and have had two children in the 20 years I've worked here. With both deliveries, I had to use the first 20 days of my own leave, and then short-term disability kicked in. I had a c-section with each delivery and was covered through 8 weeks. If I wanted to stay home longer, I would have paid myself through use of my own sick leave. We do not have a "sick leave bank" here. If you are sick for more than 5 days within a 30-day period or have an ongoing issue, you use short-term disability. [/quote]

Short-term disability is a benefit that isn't universal. [/quote]

I work at a law firm that doesn't give short-term disability. Bc of that they give a lot of sick time. I currently have 31 days of it accrued. [/quote]

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