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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do most women want to stay at home after having kids? I don't think they do. I personally would like to work 7 hour days after having kids (instead of 8.5). That would be ideal for me, and you could cut my salary by that same amount. I liked having 12 weeks paid maternity leave and then returning to work.

I see the stats in newspapers on maternity leave, but it doesn't mesh with what I see first hand. All of my girl friends have either had paid maternity leave through work, or paid through a work STD policy, or they used their own annual and sick leave (what I did). Career jobs do all have maternity leave or STD policies for birth. [/quote]

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Everyone with a professional salaried job gets 12 weeks paid by employer FMLA leave, must work there over 12 mos to qualify. [/quote]

Hi. This is wrong. If your employer has fewer than 50 employees AT YOUR WORK SITE (or within 75 miles) you are not eligible for FMLA. While I get paid parental leave, I have no job protection because we have fewer than 50 employees in DC (but hundreds nationwide). [/quote]

Correct.  What about it?  Your employees can’t hold your small business ransom.

Did they let go the last several pregnant women while they were home on (unprotected) leave?

How many weeks of (unprotected) leave did they pay or at what %?

Are these even high value, skilled roles? Because the more easily replaceable you are, the less you’re going to make at the office or on leave.

Go work somewhere else if that bothers you. [/quote]

What small business? My employer has over 1,000 employees nationwide. The HQ just happens to be in a different city.

Women are severely underrepresented, particularly in leadership, in my industry.

I don’t have any job protection if I have a baby. [/quote]

You mean b/c everyone is a remote worker?

Is that why FMLA doesn’t apply? Because clearly you’re over 50 FTEs.

Cut to the point PP. Are you an unskilled wage worker [/quote]

Dude, I am a literal in-office biglaw attorney making over 600k/yr, but I’m sure you’ll somehow use that to disparage.

You are not eligible for FMLA unless you work in a location where your employer employs at least 50 employees within a 75 miles radius. My office is a satellite office, and we don’t meet that cut off. The HQ is New York. So no, I don’t work for a small business. I also still have no job protection if I have a baby or get seriously ill, even though my employer provides paid leave.[/quote]

Don’t work there then if their paper rules bother you so much.

If you were so amazing you could [b]negotiate whatever you want for leave. Like most adult professionals do with their boss.[/b] [/quote]

This.

Lots of room to negotiate if not club Fed or big F500 [/quote]

How do you propose negotiating when you’re pregnant? What kind of leverage do you think the employee has there?[/quote]

Did you get pregnant by surprise?[/quote]

Sort of? It took over a year of trying, the assistance of a reproductive endocrinologist, and multiple losses. You know most people can just decide exactly when they’ll get pregnant, right?[/quote]

odd how several pages back of your sock puppeting you said you're still trying and not preggo.

hard to keep track of these fabrications, i know. especially whilst working at your $600k pa big law job at age 32. [/quote]

You seem really confused how childbearing works. [/quote]

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