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@anagram yes, i work in a public school. in my experience in teaching in different districts in texas, most maternity leave is similar. one district everyone had a short-term policy so if women got pregnant, the policy covered it. however, the district i work in now--the way maternity leave is done should be illegal, IMO!
any PTO days you have must be used up first. if you don't have any days, you get docked pay for each day you are gone. i was extremely lucky in that i never took days off work so i had enough saved up for 8 weeks, but now i am completely out of days, so if i have to take off a day for anything, my pay is docked. i have friends who have had babies back to back and gotten their whole 6 weeks docked pay. i think it's pretty standard to take six weeks off because that is all most can afford...even though FMLA is available and can take up to 12...unless you had 12 weeks of days saved up, that is the only way to be "paid" for your maternity leave. kind of blows!
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At my work, we do not have paid maternity leave. We have a disability policy which will pay us a portion of our pay (although rumor is it's only $400 a month which is nothing) and then we have accrued something called Extended Illness Bank while we've worked there. We can use those days as paid time off while we're out (it will cover one month for me), but once those run out we have to use our real PTO. This means that financially only 8 weeks is likely for me, but we will see if we can swing more.
At my office, the last pregnant woman took off a whole year, but now she's pregnant again. She's planning on taking 3 months, and another coworker is in my boat, thinking she'll take off 2 months and maybe days here and there afterward. We would all love to take lots of time off, but financially it's not possible and also our boss is really pushing for us to get back sooner rather than later as there's no one to cover what we do while we're gone. It's a real bummer.
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@matador84: oh yeah, that was the same with my schools district. The 12 weeks wasn't paid--you had to use your saved up time off, which meant part of the 12 weeks might be unpaid. But still, everyone at my school took 12 weeks (except a couple of single moms, that couldn't afford to).
I worked there for 9 years though, so I had many months saved up. Too bad I moved to a new state right before getting pregnant! So here, my 12 weeks isn't paid either, but I get *some* money through the NJ family leave insurance. After that, it's just our savings,
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