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Just curious...
Bees who live in Canada and get a year paid off... I'm so jealous!
i don't get maternity leave per se, but i get up to 12 weeks off at 60% of my salary through short term disability. jealous doesn't begin to describe how i feel about Canadian residents' leave!
WTF?! I had no idea Canadians got that much time off!!
It's either 6-8 weeks :(
Like PPs, I get 6-8 weeks from short-term disability at 60% pay. I'm taking all my saved up personal leave (6 weeks), which will pay 100% &, thanks to fact that we are now paid on a year-round paycheck, I can "come back to work" on June 20th (Summer Break, so not really working) & get paid 100%. So, my maternity ends up being about 5 months & I'm not getting a percentage of my paycheck for only something like 3 weeks (taking 2 weeks off before my due date, thanks to FMLA, which is unpaid).
ETA: SO jealous of Canada & Australia...a friend of mine is from Estonia & she says they get up to 3 years off with full pay.
In New Zealand we get fourteen weeks maternity leave paid at $450ish per week and we can take a further 38 weeks of unpaid leave if we've been in employment for over twelve months with the current employer.
Im one of the lucky Canadians :) Definitely truly grateful for the amount of time we get off, although we "only" (and I use that term loosely since we are VERY lucky) get a portion of our salary for the majority of the time. It does however depend on your employer. Some people get "top up" for a portion of their mat leave and the rest is paid out by the government (to a max of $790 bi-weekly).
We (Canadians) can also take up to two years off (second year without pay) and for the most part employers have to hold your job for you...at least that's the impression I'm under.
Canadian Bee here. But, I own my own business, so the year off has zero effect on me! However, because I make my schedule, I can work as much or as little as I choose to! 
I'm in Canada so maternity leave is one year, my employer tops up the first 6 months of my leave to 85% of my salary and then it's 65% for the remaining 6 months. I had no idea that it was so different in the states until I met a girl who had twins and went back to work about 10 days after she gave birth. With about a 20K hospital bill.
I wish I could extend my health benefits to the bees out there who have to go through similar situations :(
I work for the US federal government, so none. You have to use up your accrued sick time or vacation time if you want to be paid for time off after having a baby. Pretty sad example the federal government sets for the country.
I need to move countries lol
i dont know what the US tax scale is but im paying 45cents in the dollar to tax - paid mat leave has to be paid for somehow
aussie tax scale, http://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/content.asp?doc=/content/12333.htm
Canadain mothers get 15 weeks paid maternity leave and up to 35 weeks paid parental leave. The parental leave can also be split between mom and dad.
In addition,many collective agreements also have provisions for paid paternity leave so Dad can also take additional time off.
Yeah, I'm in Seattle, I joked about moving to Vancouver to get these benefits but then I realized that I have to be employed by a canadian company to get this. My company does have a site in Alberta.... hmmm, I wonder if I could transfer. LOL
My employer provides 14-16 weeks off, 100% paid. Plus you accrue vacation while you are on leave, so you can add vacation to your maternity leave and you can also take some time unpaid. Your job is protected for 6 months. We're not TTC, but the maternity benefits are so awesome that I don't think I could leave until after we have a baby.
I am truly blessed to live in Canada, I also didn't realize how different it was in the States!
I haven't done all of the research yet but I know that you get 6 weeks for a vaginal birth and 8 for a c-section. (I'm a teacher.) After that we can do a certain amount of time at half pay and then no pay. Not sure how long.
Yeah, like eloping said, all those benefits aren't free :P I pay a LOT less in taxes than you do!
We get 6 weeks off at 80% pay for a regular birth, 8 for a c-section and then you can take 12 weeks of FMLA on top of that.
@ejs4y8: I know, I was teasing :) Obviously the money doesn't come from thin air. It's a nice dream though! :)
See, if I stayed in Canada, I would get a year. But because I am moving to the states, I doubt I will have a great enough job with awesome insurance for awhile... So I chose zip, nada, ZILCH! :O
I know my FI gets taxed heavily, Alberta is soo bad for taxes and he works in the oilfield industry. But it's really money that we never see anyways, so we don't really feel the difference of paying higher taxes. And I love tax season, because we get alot of it back!
@missfireslayer, Oh i understand! I just prefer if my money stays in my pocket in lieu of higher taxes :)
Maybe this is an ignorant question because i work for a fairly large corporation, but is it really common for employers to not provide paid maternity leave? I was under the impression it was standard if you had a regular full time career type job. Or work for the government or something like that.
@ejs4y8: Totally agree with you! :)
and I second your question, I just don't understand how you don't get ANY time. That is so sad!
@eloping: i pay 37 cents on the dollar, so not THAT much different-- particularly considering how little we're provided for social-service wise.
To answer the question... I don't know! I have a very strange work situation that is pretty fluid with no written contract. My boss is super nice/understanding and fair though, so I am confident that if I was still working for him when I had a baby I'd get some time off. Best guess is probably 4-6 weeks at regular pay, and thereafter I could probably choose to work part time at a reduced salary. Which I guess is a pretty good deal, although the flip side is that I seriously doubt I'll ever be totally "off duty" while in this job. I will have to check email on honeymoon and I assume I'd have to check email and field calls on mat leave as well.
we get 6 weeks paid off and 8 weeks if it's a cesarian. we are a global company, though, and work very closely with our counterparts in Geneva, Switzerland...no joke - they get 6 MONTHS!
I work for a pretty good company with good benefits but even I wasn't sure if I was going to get 4 or 6 weeks paid. I was hoping it was 6 weeks but I was readign some benefit information and I even go scared if it was going to be 100% paid or only 60%. It's different for every company. By law, you can't be fired for leaving work due to pregnancy. But the law doesn't state that it has to be paid either. I ended up just sending an email to my HR dept about it to find out their official answer.
we get 6 weeks at 100% pay (whether vaginal birth or c-section), and then can (theoretically) take additional time paid out via Long Term Disability, paid at 66% of pay, but only up to $5k, so, not very long. It's paid out through the Short Term and Long Term Disability programs paid by my employer as part of my benefits package. I work for a large, private company.
According our employee handbook, our (small) company offers up to 12 weeks at an unstated "reduced" salary. I assume that you can negotiate it but it probably is close to 60% like other people have said.
I am in the female-dominated field of education, and we get...zip, zero. We can save up PB & sick days (but you can't use more than 2 PB days in a row -you have to wait until the following year & then they roll over into sick days.) I am so new that I probably will have less than 2 wks of pay by the time our 1st rolls around. Nice.
We do get 11 or 12 weeks UNPAID. So here I am getting sick from my little monsters all of the time and going into work so I can hoard my sick days for maternity leave (I am working while battling an upper respiratory infection & bronchitis RIGHT NOW.)
I would check because reading that info was pretty informative. It says in my handbook in order to get maternity leave benefits you have to have worked 12 months or #### hours. I'm not sure if that is common but I'll make sure I take that into account if I do end up moving back to the east coast.
@yrret107: the 12/months, x hours are most likely to be eligible for FMLA. FMLA allows you to legally take up to 12 weeks, unpaid, but your job is protected.
I'm not looking to have a baby right now but government employees get nada. We have to use up our accrued annual leave and sick leave then evoke FMLA and possibly people might donate their hours to us.
@gabrielleelise1981: I think it's a requirement for me to get Short term disability... I think that is what maternity leave is classified under, although for my company, there is difference between pregnancy medical leave versus regular medical leave. Yeah, I love reading my handbook, it's so easy to understand. ;)
I live in Australia, I get 6 weeks paid maternity leave from my employer and I get 18 weeks paid parental leave from the government - this just started as of January 1st 2011.
Yeah, I don't think fathers get anything in this country well besides FMLA. Sucks!
ETA: Oh nevermind, I just looked apparently CA offers paid paternal leave. I guess some larger companies might offer it too.
I get a year that my work tops up to 93% of my salary as part of our benefits package. We can take a further year unpaid and our position will be held.
It's definitely not free though. Although it seems like our taxes are similar (32% ish) to a lot of your guys'.
i don't have any kids, but i know while in the military, you get 6 weeks off paid time. you can take leave after that if you have it (which is paid time off). some women opt to, others not.
Most teachers get a year off. I'm not sure if it's paid, but I know the school district will hold your job for a year.
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