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I'm in NZ and if working I would be eligible to take sixteen weeks of government-paid leave and another 36 weeks of unpaid leave. Total parental leave tops out at 52 weeks and ends on the child's first birthday at which point your job is no longer protected.
With Miss A, I took four weeks of vacation time before starting my parental leave on my due date.
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Mine's the exact same as Cherrybee's mat deal. I'm in the UK too.
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@JennyG: in my current school district, we aren't allowed to take accrued sick days. The district reasons that the time after giving birth, the woman isn't sick and the teacher's union agreed to it.
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12 weeks paid.
And then you have 6 months when you return that you can select to work part time as a "New Parent Schedule."
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@PrincessBaby: that sounds like a really nice program.
Mine is 6-8 weeks STD (70%) concurrent with whatever PTO you have and the rest is unpaid FMLA.
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@Anya: I think it's really nice of them to offer that..I won't be doing it because I'm in sales, and our sales ranking is based on how much we make in bonus. If you work part time, they pro-rate your bonus accordingly, therefore your rank drops and you're basically at the bottom for the year. I don't want to have to deal with that for a lot of reasons- mommy-tracking, I like my big bonuses, annual pay raise, etc. So it's nice and I'm sure others can utilize it and it's minor repercussion, but I've worked too hard to be at the top, and it feels good, and I don't want to lose it:)
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US/DC, medium sized nonprofit (75 full time staff). Our policy is fantastic if you've been there more than a year. DC has a 16 week leave law, 4 weeks higher than federal so we get 16 weeks regardless. Company pays 8 weeks of leave at full pay. Then disability kicks in- 6 weeks for a csec, 4 for vaginal, at 60%. After that, we can use a max of 4 weeks of PTO (vacay and sick days). I had a csec and my full 16 week leave was paid for in full except the 6 weeks of 60% disability. One caveat is that you must come back to work for a 3 month minimum or you pay back all the leave.
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I also work for a DC employer. One neat thing about DC-FMLA is that you get both 16 weeks of medical leave AND 16 weeks of family leave. So, theoretically, you could have medical leave during your final weeks of pregnancy and 6 weeks postpartum, then an additional 16 weeks of family leave.
One downside to DC-FMLA is that the 16 weeks are per every 2 years. If you have Irish twins you could be out of luck leave-wise.
My employer offers a 60% pay STD plan, however, the plan stipulates that you must exhaust all of your sick/vacation/personal leave before STD kicks in. STD benefits terminate at 6wks post vaginal delivery, 8 weeks post c-section. So, if you've saved up leave, STD doesn't apply.
We don't have any specific new parent paid leave, but, our sick and vacation leave policies are generous enough that it is possible to build up about 13 weeks of paid leave. Anything beyond that is unpaid.
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@Anagram: That's how my cousins district is. She could use sick days before the baby was born, but not as she was recovering from a c-section. Makes no sense!!!
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