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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“You agreed to hire a nanny. That means you bear the risk of sickness/maternity leave/illness that come with having an individual employee rather than a daycare center. If you don’t want that risk, put your kid in daycare.”

Sorry but nope. It is never going to be the case that employers of just 1 or 2 people are expected to solely shoulder the cost of maternity leave. Now if there is a program the government runs where you chip in X% of salary towards a fund that pays for leave, then absolutely they should be included. That’s very different though. [/quote]

+1 to "sorry but nope." First, pregnancy isn't a "risk" like an illness. And yes, if we're going to maternity leave, it needs to be funded by taxes, not individual employers.[/quote]

And when that day comes where there's a federal or state policy on maternity leave, that will be great.  But in the meantime, if you hire a nanny, you have the moral obligation to pay maternity leave.  Because there's no other option right now.  If you can't afford that possibility, don't get a nanny, because there's nothing worse than people who say, "I appreciate you, but I can't afford to pay you now that you're pregnant."[/quote]

NP. "No other option"? There are lots of other options. Like hiring an older nanny who's not going to become pregnant. And I STILL don't understand why it's "moral" to pay for someone else's choice to have a child. I think it's moral to support a sick employee because it's not a choice to become sick, and I think it's inhumane to let sick people lose their jobs and go into financial ruin. But I think pregnancy is way different from an illness.[/quote]

So your answer to the lack of maternity leave in this country is age discrimination?  If you don't realize why it's immoral to leave your child's caretaker with no source of income because she's pregnant, we don't have a political disagreement, we have a fundamental difference in value systems.[/quote]

Do you have a nanny?  Have you paid her maternity leave?  [/quote]

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