What's Up With U.S. Maternity Leave?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Good.I support this.

I also support up to 6 months unpaid leave. If an employer wants to give more...I also support that.

Are you also a fan of endurance challenges? Like being whipped and having hot wax poured on your nipples?

A person would surely have to be masochistic to not want paid holiday from an employer.

[Merle 458]

An employer would surely have to be masochistic to want to pay an employee 3 weeks out of the year to not work.

I fixed it for you.

[Dan and Judy 614]

Women should be fired when they have a baby so they can stay home and take care of the baby.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I think it bears repeating: the US is the only country in the developed world to not mandate a single day paid vacation or paid maternity leave.

*crickets*

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I think it bears repeating: the US is the only country in the developed world to not mandate a single day paid vacation or paid maternity leave.

*crickets*

It's all about those poor job creators . Always gotta look out for them.

It's unreal how many people in this country have fallen for this cr@p.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

I think it bears repeating: the US is the only country in the developed world to not mandate a single day paid vacation or paid maternity leave.

*crickets*

which has been a major contributing factor in at least one infant death that I know of.

[Sanja 7]

Wow, in Brazil we have 4-6 months paid maternity leave and 30 days paid vacation a year. At least one good thing about my country

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Hearing all these stories, I'm grateful for the vacation plan the military has in place. 2.5 days a month of paid leave, 30 days a year and we can hold up to 60(75 in some cases) before we have to use/lose it.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I swear some people think that employees having any sort of statutory rights is equivalent to forming a union, which is equivalent to communism, which is a stone's throw away from totalitarian takeover of the USA.

The nefarious end-game being to:

• take people's guns away
• bulldoze every church and replace it with an abortion clinic
• impose mandatory sex-education lessons for kids involving gay sex.

Edited October 31, 2014 by Hail Ming!

[Póg mo 1,749]

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I swear some people think that employees having any sort of statutory rights is equivalent to forming a union, which is equivalent to communism, which is a stone's throw away from totalitarian takeover of the USA.

The nefarious end-game being to:

• take people's guns away
• bulldoze every church and replace it with an abortion clinic
• impose mandatory sex-education lessons for kids involving gay sex.

You forgot Obolacare death panels.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You forgot Obolacare death panels.

Naturally.

[Merle 458]

It's all about those poor job creators . Always gotta look out for them.

It's unreal how many people in this country have fallen for this cr@p.

Yea I know, all those evil small business owners that are barely scraping by in this ####### economy should definitely be paying someone to not work for 3 months a year. I'm sure mom and pop can afford that.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

You forgot Obolacare death panels.

Hey! My death panels are kind of awesome.

[Póg mo 1,749]

Yea I know, all those evil small business owners that are barely scraping by in this ####### economy should definitely be paying someone to not work for 3 months a year. I'm sure mom and pop can afford that.

They'll get by, just like small business owners in the rest of the developed world. Tired of the same old excuses, to get out of doing the right thing.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Yea I know, all those evil small business owners that are barely scraping by in this ####### economy should definitely be paying someone to not work for 3 months a year. I'm sure mom and pop can afford that.

There aren't as many of these small businesses scraping by as you'd like to think. The amount of deductions and write offs a business can make each year are usually worth the cost of being in business before any business is even conducted. I'm of the belief that any business that is continuously "scraping by" probably shouldn't be in business to begin with, they end up costing the taxpayers more than they are worth when they do finally go bankrupt.