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I'm 12 weeks pregnant and just met with HR
I'm 12 weeks pregnant and just met with HR to find out about our Maternity Leave program only to learn that they only give us unpaid leave (you have to file for state disability to get your 55% salary during those weeks) In talking with other moms, I found they all came back early (because who can really afford to take a big pay cut when you have a new little one to tend to?)
It never occurred to me to check because kids weren't on the radar when I applied for the job, but I'm totally disheartened that my company that "prides itself" on caring about its people doesn't have something better in place. Has anyone gone to HR to see about improving their policies? I know as a whole our organization had a 12 year tenure when I started and a pretty high average age, so it may have not been on their radar, but I'm shocked that they aren't more progressive. Any advice??
Anonymous
06/12/18 at 2:55PM UTC
Wow - 6 weeks at 70% pay is amazing. With both my kids I got zero pay for any weeks. I took 6 weeks off for both: used my 2 weeks vacation and took 4 weeks unpaid. Good luck finding a place that offers better than what you have right now.
Anonymous
06/19/18 at 3:49PM UTC
It's true many companies don't give pay during maternity leave but I applaud nadobabe for trying to find something better.
Anonymous
05/22/18 at 9:57PM UTC
I hope that you and the HR team can work together to change the policy for the better! Have you seen this resource - http://www.thefifthtrimester.com/?
Anonymous
04/14/17 at 12:45AM UTC
I recently went through the tedious search to find my employer's maternity leave. During this process I found that they give 6 weeks at 70% pay. I found it a punch in the gut since they also pride on being progressive with their benefits package. The year before they had done a benefits package survey to all employees, and they made changes that aligned with what their employees said they wanted (cell phone stipend, lower healthcare monthly costs, flexible work schedules). The problem I see in this is that while we are 20k employees, the amount of women that are of child bearing age are probably not high (or don't want kids or had kids before joining and no longer need the benefit) and therefore didn't request it. The other major fault with the surgery was it didn't pose questions about maternity leave, you could write it in but as in your case it wasn't on people's radar). End result, there were no changes to the leave policy because it wasn't an item the employees wanted. Because of this, I have started to look for new employment and would cite this a hundred times over to HR and my management upon leaving.
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