parents are offered an average of ten months of parental leave where some countries‚ such as Germany‚ will extend the leave up to 39 months (Berger and Waldfogel 2001). In 1993‚ the United States federal government finally passed a law that would help with job protection for parents and allow them to take time off to care for their new infant and recover from labor (Ruhm 2000). However‚ the FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act) does not give paid parental leave‚ rather it is only twelve unpaid weeks. For
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Parental Leave in Society In many cases‚ couples wait until they reach a financially stable point in their lives with a reliable job for each partner before they make the decision to conceive a child. Experiencing the miracle of childbirth marks the beginning of a new chapter of a couple’s life‚ where new parents fall in love with the tiny addition to their family and take on enormous caregiving responsibilities. However‚ parents may not have enough time to balance a job and a newborn. To counter
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and still have to worry about parental leave. Not to mention the hospital costs‚ the appliance and furniture needs‚ and the stress that comes with being a new parent. It is still extremely rare to see a woman paid on her maternity leave‚ and even rarer to see a man take more than a few days after the birth of a baby. These kinds of acts promote gender stereotypes and limit new mothers and fathers. Parents‚ regardless of gender‚ should be allowed paid parental leave while awaiting the birth or adoption
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more women representation. There is no doubt that I personally found most of the topics incredibly interesting and mind changing however there is one topic in particular that opened up doors of multiple explanations of my past. The topic of paid family leave left such a memorable last impression because it deeply resonated with the struggles my family faced throughout my childhood. The insight of my parent’s struggles in the past‚ gave me the opportunity to critically think about current policies
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This is a proposal for a national paid parental leave law in the United States‚ a law guaranteeing both mothers and fathers time off from their employment to care for a newborn or adopted child. Parental leave is an issue which lack adversely affects the present of our society and if it continues to be so‚ can damage our future. As everyone are well aware‚ the children are the future of a country. The way they are raised impacts the type of citizens they will become. A country’s social policies play
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should consider asking your workplace if they offer paid paternity leave.You maybe asking yourself well why should I do this?And you should do this because this is a wonderful program called FMLA.It “Entitles eligible employees of covered employees to take unpaid‚Job-Protected leave for specified family and medical reasons‚Without continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave. Eligible employees are entitled to’’.So this allows
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Question: Australia has to date not legislated for paid maternity leave‚ unlike most other countries. Assess who should take responsibility for paid maternity leave. Explain the reasons for your response. Paid maternity leave is defined as income replacement to compensate for the leave from paid employment necessary around child-birth (Baird‚ 2002a:2). In the developed world today‚ many western countries have designed a legislated for paid maternity leave such as Sweden‚ Germany‚ United Kingdom‚ New
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equal responsibility in the family and in child-rearing. Albeit paid leave is regularly viewed as an issue that matters to working women‚ paid parental leave is also fundamentally critical for fathers. While it is pertinent
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Paid Sick Leave All full-time employees will be credited with four hours of paid sick leave for each completed eighty hours during a pay period; hours exceeding eighty will not be counted. Utilization of sick leave must have the approval of the supervisor‚ sick leave shall not be allowed in advance of being earned‚ if an employee has insufficient sick leave hours to cover the period of absence they must elect to use accrued vacation time. In the event the employee does not have enough sick time or
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country without paid maternity leave (Messer). Maternity leave is the vital time a mother takes off of work to take care of herself and her newborn after childbirth. However‚ eighty-eight percent of women in America do not have access to paid maternity leave (Shortall). American women are forced to put their careers and financial stability at risk simply because they want to have children. It is not just that America’s attitude differs from the rest of the world; the gap in maternal leave has its roots
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