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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The majority of DCUM is white collar office jobs. They force the rest of the employees to cover the woman while she's on maternity leave. It costs those companies next to nothing to offer maternity leave.

If my nanny wanted 12 weeks paid, I would have to hire a $$$ temp worker for 12 weeks. [/quote]

It costs a lot in employee morale as [b]other employees resent doing your job without extra pay[/b].  If other employees can divvy up your work then you are just extra baggage and no longer needed.[/quote]

This is true and is the subject of discord in offices. But it happens in all periods of your life. I just covered for a mastectomy, cancer and a knee replacement for 50+ year olds. All were just as long as my maternity leave. People only complain about women having children though. [/quote]

+1!  The same happens at our office.  People have taken off for surgery and to care for an ailing relative.  It only seems to be an issue when it comes to maternity leave. [/quote]

FMLA covers leave to take care of ailing child or parents as well as maternity leave.  Emergency surgery is just that, an emergency and some elective surgery as knee or hip replacement is covered by sick leave and very few of these situations are for four or more months
  Also, pregnancy is a CHOICE.  So, why should the rest of us be on the hook for your CHOICE?  We shouldn't. The sense of entitlement displayed by you and others is beyond 
the pale. [/quote]

It is absolutelly in appropriate to compare maternity leave with an illness. In my late 20's, I needed to go on medical leave for a complex issue and needed 6 months out.  It's not a happy time. It was stressful. Not "happy stress", or things that will pass such as being up all night for feeding or diaper changes, but  more along the lines of am I gonna make it?

That being said, it is also inappropriate to say that maternity leave is entitlement. You are taking care of a human being! Yes, it is a choice (for some), but that doesn't change the need to take care of a little one.

In any case, FMLA is UNPAID![/quote]

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