One does wonder why AmeriKan youth decide to open fire instead of finding a reasonable solution. US labor laws and maternity leave are shit in the supposed wealthiest country in the world.
I think you mean government mandated paid maternity leave. In America, companies themselves decide the leave they want to give their employees.
Is it right? No. But the framing is disingenuous and implies no one in the US EVER gets maternity leave EVER, and that’s not true.
Disagree. It’s clearly gov mandated leave, companies can do whatever they want above the minimum in any country.
Australia is 22 weeks at minimum wage by the government. Most businesses also offer an additional 12 weeks at full wage. You can take up to a year off without your employer being able to take issue.
Shithole country.
Best advice I can give you. Start slacking at work. Not enough to get in trouble or fired. Just a little bit here and there and expand on it when you can at intervals… That’s what I started doing and it makes my life just a little bit better. Why work your fingers to the bone for a shithole country that can’t even give us the things other 1st world countries have? We’re being taken advantage of. So start taking some advantage back.
I feel like when I started slacking my boss became happier with my performance. Maybe I’m just happier and taking time to realize it now, but I got a better bonus for last year than the year before and I really didn’t do all that much last year.
Who down voted this? People who want women working no matter what? Maybe they will allow an extra hour at lunch to go have the babay, as long as the hour is docked from the paycheck?
If you’re not churning out widgets for your employer with an aching vagina and handing your newborn over to someone else to care for, what good are you? Your’e an expense and a liability unless you’re making someone above you richer. All this country wants is to monetize you until you’re not worth it, then hope you die quick.
Interesting, I thought Hungary had more. You get paid until the end of the third year, but in the last it’s minimal, people usually return after 2. Maybe the source is different
In Lithuania, it’s 72 days before scheduled birth and 56 days after, fully paid on day of entering maternal leave.
After that, one of the parents can go into long-term maternal leave of 18 or 24 months, at around 70% of pay.
In addition to that, the spouse who isn’t taking that vacation can have 2 months off until the child turns 3.
”vacation“
Japan has it (and, more recently, paternity leave), but using it can be harder. Old companies try to pull all kinds of BS to deny it or change the woman’s job or such. It’s getting better and enforcement is cracking down but, as with all things here, it moves slowly.
WTF Papua New Guinea?! Get with the 21st Century.
being successful in the us means having a job that gives you benefits equivalent to the minimum required by law in the average european country.
But they want to increase birth rates?
What a pack of fucking idiots.
That was exactly my thought. Guess they’re to busy stoking fear about illegal immigrants rather than fix real problems.
Even if they were competent enough to understand what they need to do to increase the birth rate, their actual answer would be “FEMALES shouldn’t have jobs to begin with”.
Illegal immigrants from countries with more guaranteed paid maternity leave than the US has!
(Yes this is an extremely 1-dimensional lens to look at these extremely complex socioeconomic and geopolitical issues through. What’s not complex is that child birth is a biological process not compatible with the factory oriented 8 hours a day/5 days a week schedule that we’re now stuck on)
Who TF is the troll researcher who made a color for 4 weeks or less that doesn’t even appear on the map 😂
Took me a bit but there’s a tiny little dot on south of Africa, Eswatini.
It’s too small to tell which nuance of orange it is, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt for now…
I’m not 100% sure but I think PNG might be light orange too?
PNG PNG files are harder to read when served as WebP.
No, just Eswatii. It is sad we can not see the Caribbean islands and what their policy are.
And where the average is well into the top group on the legend.
I swear I didn’t, I just re-posted it this time 🧐
In the US, federal law allows women 3 months off after childbirth, after which infants are shipped to daycare.
This is unpaid leave that allows you to keep your benefits. Some states augment that with pay and some “benevolent” corporations will offer more pay or time.
State supported paternity leave does not exist.
Research shows that isolating men from children leads to poor modulation of testosterone resulting in more aggression and less empathy.
Research also shows that lack of mother child bonding in early development creates men like JD Vance.
Policy shapes biology which shapes culture which shapes policy. A vicious cycle that we can only break once we recognize it.
California has PFL (paid family leave) which also applies to fathers. I don’t know if there are more states with similar programs, but CA at least covers a lot of people.
I’m going to give thread op the benefit of the doubt and assume “state supported” was supposed to mean “federally supported”.
Colorado has 12 weeks paid to both. But, once again someone doesn’t understand state sovereignty in the US and just clumps a together as one unit. 🤦🏼♂️
Oregon has bonding time for fathers as well and paid family leave, actually the most generous pay rates and broadest application in the US. 100% of pay up to ~$60k indexed to inflationary measure and benefits tapers down for higher earners.
I don’t think they don’t understand state sovereignty, as this is common in a lot of countries. What must baffle everyone is the sanctity of the free enterprise surpassing that of the child birth, i.e. the way the state bends to the capital. To put it in other words, states could get a Trump-like government that could take everything away in less than a month just because they think they know better.
You don’t leave this kind of policy to the states to maneuver against their citizens. California will be progressive in that sense, but what may we find in states like Mississippi, Georgia or Florida? Why there’s not a national policy that guarantees a month of paid leave no matter where you live in the USA and then maybe some more?
Because limiting Federal power has been the theme of the US since the beginning. The founders were so afraid of it going the way of monarchy that they didn’t see the consequences this could have back then. Not arguing for or against that, just stating the “why” since you asked.
Local policies counteracting federal policies are also a main ingredient for civil conflicts. It’s been a while since the US government and population should have started questioning the mindset of the founding fathers. The social discontent will find a way out.
Policy shapes biology which shapes culture which shapes policy. A vicious cycle that we can only break once we recognize it.
It’s even more difficult when you have people who are purposely exploiting that cycle for nefarious reasons.
And millions of Americans think the reason we don’t have all the things we don’t have that everybody else has, is cuz we have Freedom! and everybody else is oppressed. How did so many people get so brainwashed?
I am so proud the oppression in Canada is this bad, but it can get better.
You should come see when it’s better. Maybe you can stay forever!
It sounds to me that lemmy is full of Canadians, right? 😎 What is the percentage, 50% from Canada (or Canada’ fans at least), 30% from the US and 20% from Europe?
Right, north Korea has paid maternity leave; I TOTALLY believe that. (I don’t actually fucking believe that)
Commie russia had paid mothers leave. It was a total cesspit and awful place to live but even they had paid mothers leave.
That much I can believe but not north Korea.
