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Typical Boomer selfishness
i just had a guy ask for 6 weeks paternity/maternity leave...he's a whatever ya call 'em with a capital "M", but times sure have a changed.
It would make driving 100% safer that's for sure. People actually following the rules of the road rather than thinking the world revolves around me - novel concept.
And the trains would run on time.
How do you handle that? Allow him the time off? Disagree with the notion of time off for dad?
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Must have been one hell of a company party 9 months ago
That is just a lack of planning and poor management. I have been making arrangements with teammates for 5+ months. Everyone is incredibly supportive and excited for me. I have heard zero resentment, and the majority of my coworkers are in their 40s and 50s. I am splitting it up into 4 weeks right away and another 4 weeks after my wife goes back to work next summer. I have committed to checking in on email every day or two and calling in to our weekly team meeting. I think that is a fair compromise. People take leave all the time. My boss was out for 6 weeks after back surgery. Another woman had breast cancer and was intermittently out for weeks at a time during heavy chemo sessions for years. Someone else needed 3 weeks to grieve after losing a spouse. Life happens. If management can't adapt, that is on them. And MU82, it was absolutely one of the major reasons I came here, along with total compensation. We are just starting a family. I was determined to find a job that would let me be the kind of dad I want to be.
I get 8 weeks. Paid 100%. It was a big part of why I chose to work for this company The free market in the USA is starting to catch up to practices in the rest of the world. More and more companies are adding this benefit. It is a good development, I think.
Well, as long as you had blue eyes and blond hair.
i guess i didn't make myself clear-yeah, he wanted that too! i'm not sure if you're up to speed there jes my man, they want their cake man. you ought to try being a boss sometime...good luck
Maybe I misunderstood.I thought you were saying a male employee of yours asked for 6 weeks paternity leave. I was interested, if that was the situation, whether you granted it I was also interested on your opinion of maternity/paternity leave in general.
it was a male, it was one of the questions he had during an interview. i offer paid time off (PTO). they can use it for whatever they want. for this particular position however, it was a salaried position with a draw against collected production. also, i am not a business of 50 or more and typically employees must have worked 12 months to be eligible. so in my situation, i need to know if and when this employee would be taking an extended leave as we usually have patients booked out a few weeks in advance. if they want to continue to draw a salary, they will need to earn it back anyway.
Overlaps. Some have been out only a few weeks, others 3 months. One woman almost a year on LTD.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
My last employer had 6 weeks of 100% paid paternity leave. They later reduced it to 60% pay. Last I heard, they eliminated it when "Aligning benefits" with the company they merged with (aka, stripped all the great benefits they had).Between their paternity leave policy and generous tuition reimbursement (12k a year to pay for my MU MBA), it kept me at the company for 9 years. If not for those benefits, I would have left in the 3-4 year range. The institutional knowledge, experience, and efficiencies maintained through that 9 years, plus the fact they didn't need to hire an train a replacement or replacements, saved the company far more than it cost. It was a win-win.Unfortunately, short sighted bean counters fail to see that sort of thing. With the reduced benefits they'll miss out on hiring or retaining some great people.
if the company is still in business, they must know what they are doing. if they scaled back their benefits programs, they ceased being cost effective. i've met a lot of people who have never written a paycheck, much less run a business, claim they know better. give it a try sometime. if there are other companies offering similar benefits that your company eliminated, go get it and good luck on ya. short sighted "bean counters" are usually unemployed "bean counters".
The irony of this debate is that people are saying a paternity policy would lead to discrimination against men of child bearing age....they are correct and we know this because that's what is happening to women of child bearing age! And guess what, if companies start discriminating against child bearing age people of both genders they are going to rapidly run out of work force plus all the remaining work force wont be out on leave but likely have kids they have to take time for.Companies can absorb all of this if they are forward thinking and employee centric. But either a lot more reform is necessary to level the playing field for women and to change the cultural expectation to one where men are equal care givers to women