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Plus that whole 40 hour work week thing is great, which is a total unicorn if you own your own business

I'm in the US. We get 6 weeks at 60% pay, then FMLA on top of it. I'd expect more from such a huge company but it is what it is

Big big company. Great to work for... group office politics suck though. Also in California and we have some special stuff.

It's weird here is the break down.

4 weeks off before due date.
100% company pays for the first week (California doesn't start paying you till your 2nd week of disablity - company just marks you being sick).
60% Cali disablity + 40% company pay so you will get your full salary for the next 3 weeks or till you give birth

Birth
Vaginal - 6 weeks (60% Cali + 40% company)
C-section - 8 weeks (60% Cali + 40% company)

After this ... it's more 6 weeks paid (60% Cali + 0% company)

Usually people return back to work because it's been about 4 months off with some pay. BUT Cali will give you another 6 weeks of unpaid but job protection is you don't want to leave your baby just yet.

60% is kind of a weird thing to say... because Cali has a max... so if you make more than what the max is... you are getting far less than 60% of your salary but my company will make up more than 40% for you to still have your full salary while away during those 4 weeks before and 6-8 weeks after. But those last 6 weeks can be quite a bit of a dip if you make a lot.

I work for a large company in the US. We're covered by FMLA, so we can take up to twelve weeks off. The first six weeks, you get STD, which is 70% of your pay, though if you have sick/banked sick time, you have to use that first. Then the last six weeks are unpaid unless you have vacation time. You have to exhaust your vacation time before going unpaid.

NZ here.
14 weeks paid (increasing to 16 this year and 18 next year) but paid at a lower rate than most people's salary.
52 weeks off.

@Raindrop: wow! That's amazing.

I'm at a temp so no idea what their policy is if there is one.

But at the only job I was at when I left for maternity it was 50% of my salary. NY state has std and my employer covered the difference. 6 weeks with first week unpaid for vaginal. No fmla because it was a small company. They basically said your job isn't guaranteed past 6 weeks so I did not feel comfortable asking more than a week extra of using PTO.

In the current district where I teach, because I'm not tenured yet, I get 8 weeks unpaid leave, though I can use whatever sick/personal days I've accumulated. Sucks because in my previous district, I had tenure and would have had paid leave plus the option of extended (unpaid) leave while they held my position for me for a year or more.

I'm in Austria. Women get 1 year paid (either 80% of salary up to a fairly generous cap if you are employed, or if you are not employed, about €1000/month for one year). You can take up to three years (last 2 unpaid) and keep your job/equivalent. There is also a way to take a smaller monthly govt payment and stretch it out over 2 or 3 years (it's complicated). The one year leave can be divided among the parents. As for normal paternity leave, it depends on the company as to what they give aside from what is included with the one year maternity leave. My husband got 1 month paid at full salary. A friend of mine's husband got 1 day, but took vacation time. That said, we pay a TON of taxes here, so some people I know feel like they are finally recouping some of that during mat leave.

When I took mat leave, I didn't apply for the govt payment since I knew I was going to start working when LO was 4 or 5 months and I would have had to reimburse some of the funds

I'm in the US and work for a small non-profit with about 20 employees. We do not receive FMLA, but are given eight weeks of family leave with an additional four weeks available at the discretion of the executive director. You have to use any remaining sick/vacation/comp time concurrently with family leave.

Active duty military in the US.

42 days maternity leave for having a birth. 10 days maternity leave for adoption. 10 days paternity leave. All days include weekends and are at full pay. Paternity leave needs to be taken within the first year. Any additional time off needs to be taken with earned leave.

@T.H.O.U.: Me too with the local government job. No paid leave, but we were able to sign up for short-term disability that paid 75% of pay for 6 weeks. I had so much sick/vacation time I was out for 12 weeks and had it all paid except the last week.

In US, working for a very big company that is owned by a bigger French company. It's pretty goid by US standards.

Can take 12 weeks FMLA.
Company gives all parents 2 weeks paid
Then Short term disability kicks in, pays 100% for 6 or 8 weeks (vaginal birth or c section).
Then you can use vacation time if you have it to get paid for the remainder.
There is also an option to do a gradual return to work - 3 days/week @ 60% pay for a month, then 4 days/week @ 80% pay for a second month (sadly we couldn't afford for me to take the pay cut).

Take as long as you want but unpaid from company. State paid STD.

I don't know what pregnant moms get, but adoptive moms get 12 weeks unpaid fmla. There is some pay for non-adopting moms.

I get 12 weeks off under FMLA. The first 6-8 weeks are paid under extended illness and vacation days, and the rest is unpaid unless you take more vacation. They make you take one week of vacation at the beginning before the extended illness kicks in.

12 weeks unpaid via fmla. 6 of that paid at 60% through STD. I work for a small business, so more flexibility was afforded me. I took 15 weeks, the last 6 of which I worked on one project on an hourly basis. (I'm a consultant). My company also continued to pay my benefits which I don't think is a given.

6 weeks paid. I tack on my vacation days or just get unpaid to get a full 12 weeks off.

I'm a public school teacher and have worked in two states. Some of this varies by school district but in my particular districts:

Texas:
-FMLA for 12 weeks (unpaid mat leave)
-could elect to pay for STD, and the payments would be taken out of your paycheck
-could use saved up sick leave to pay for mat leave, but you only got 5 sick days a year, so it's not super likely you would have a ton saved up. No vacation days.
FMLA started the day you give birth, whether or not it was on School holiday. So, if you gae birth June 5th, the day summer break started, you got 12 weeks from that day.

NJ:

Job offers unpaid FMLA for 12 weeks
-You can elect to buy your own STD for 6 weeks
-NJ state pays a small stiped for 6 weeks under the state's "Family leave insurance". The top amount was about 1/3 of my monthly salary.

*if you are a tenured teacher, you can take up to 1 year off unpaid and keep your exact job. You can take up to 2 years unpaid and have a job somewhere in the district, but not necessarily your same school, same grade, or same subject.

I was untenured, so that didn't apply to me.

We have std at 60% pay for 6 weeks and they also give you another 4 weeks at 100% pay

I worked for a division of a global advertising agency when I had LO.

Their policy was decent, I thought, though a little confusing. There was 6-8 weeks of short term disability leave, depending on vaginal or C-section delivery. The company offered 2-4 weeks of paid leave for all parents in addition, depending on how long you had been with the company.

On top of that, there is a CA state law that requires employers to provide partial pay for six weeks of "baby bonding time." I didn't live in CA, but my employer still gave me this partial pay.

So if you had a vaginal birth and had only been with the company for 1 year, you would receive the minimum - 8 weeks of fully paid leave plus 6 weeks of partially paid leave. The way I looked at it was more like 11 weeks of fully paid leave because they just deposited my full paychecks until it was gone.

I actually got 13 weeks because I had a C-section and therefore got more STD. And then I quit. (I was very unhappy there, and HR assured me that maternity leave benefits were "mine to take" regardless of whether I returned, so no guilt.)

Now I freelance and I have no maternity leave!

DH's company offers 2 weeks of paid leave for the "secondary caregiver" (usually dad) and 8 weeks of paid leave for the "primary caregiver" (usually mom) regardless of birth or adoption. But they are pretty flexible - he ended up really taking 3 weeks and they didn't deduct the extra week from his vacation. And I know someone in his company who went back part-time after 8 weeks for another couple months, at full pay.

One of the largest U.S. federal agencies. You get 12 weeks fmla, but you're allowed to use up any leave you have built up, and our agency will advance you sick leave up until the calendar year's end. I have been working for 2yrs, but ha ent built up a whole lot yet, and am having a baby in middle of year. I'm taking 9 weeks paid, 5 weeks of it advance leave I will owe whe I get back. Most women in my office take 6-8 weeks. I only know of one who took 12. I can ask my employer if I can work the last 3 weeks telework at home, so 12 weeks out of the office and I'm pretty sure she would be more than agreeable to do that. I have hyperemesis, and they offered medical telework for me, and I've been working from home since November no questions asked. I'm pleased with the leave situation. Especially, since I'm still a "newish" employee in the federal government! You come back to your same exact job. It would take an act of congress (literally) for me to get fired since I'm now a permanent employee.