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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This freaking country.  Why are we SO behind the times?[/quote]

And these are executive branch employees under Obama. If I have to hear him talk up maternity leave on e more time I want to scream. It's so hypocritical. [/quote]

Given that feds in the executive branch [b]seem to get at least 6 weeks paid leave[/b], even if they haven't been there a year or accrued any leave, and people working for private employers have the experience described directly above, I'd say that Obama is right to focus on national issues, and not on issues specific to the fed.

-- Mom who got 8 days of paid leave from an employer who gave no annual leave, and didn't allow sick leave to be carried over from year to year.  [/quote]

This isn't entirely right.  We aren't getting parental leave.  All Obama's executive order does is give us the option of being advanced up to 6 weeks of sick leave for the birth of a child.  It would take over 2 years to pay back that if you took all 6 weeks (we earn 13 days of sick leave a year).  I just recently had a baby and decided not to advance any leave because it just kicks the can down the road -- I either take the time unpaid now or I take it unpaid later when my child gets sick and needs to stay home from daycare, or when I get sick enough that I can't go into work.  It's nice that Obama increased the options available, but it in no way constitutes a meaningful parental leave policy.

OP, to your question: the lack of actual FMLA may not mean anything about your ability to take time off and/or the ramifications on your job.  I have had 2 kids while working as a fed, and I was not required to invoke FMLA either time.  I took 5 months for the first (because we could not get a daycare spot before then) and 3 months for the second -- my leave was a combination of sick, annual, and LWOP.[/quote]

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