Bill will donate every dollar of his for this. Right? I don’t think bill thought this through.
They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore.
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RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 16 minutes ago
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
What does this mean? That other employees are going to be expected to give up their own vacation/sick leave to pregnant co-workers? The state is so cheap they aren’t willing to give them their own leave? WTAF.
Ava@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Pretty much. Leave sharing policies are usually set up such that in some sort of extraordinary medical circumstance, employees can transfer paid leave to one another.
The idea is sorta that if a loved one has a major medical emergency and needs a lot of care for 3 months, other employees can transfer paid leave to help cover gaps. This makes sense as a way to cover edge cases in extreme circumstances, but “is having a child” definitely isn’t such a case.
FlordaMan@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m so happy to life in a country where all sick days are paid.
exu@feditown.com 3 hours ago
The sane way is having regulation that protects your income and job for a few months
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Pregnancy is not an edge case, though.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 44 minutes ago
A lot of places have it set up as “compassion leave”. Usually it’s done by the employee association and they approve it for personal tragedies. If someone’s house burns down, for example.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
“Donated sick days”? WTF? Sick days should be a right. Maternity leave should be a right.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 43 minutes ago
Back when I was a teacher, we could “donate” a number of sick days to a pool that would help other teachers who ended up with long term health issues. And yes, you are correct.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 20 minutes ago
That’s the employer’s responsibility, not yours
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
FMLA IS a right (albeit crap compared to most of the rest of the civilized world). They just find ways to screw people out of it
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 17 minutes ago
For people outside of the US, FMLA is up to three months of unpaid leave where you get the privilege of getting to keep your job and your benefits (though you continue to pay for them while not being paid).
For many American women, this is all they have access to for maternity leave. So they power through those three months then have to scrap together the cash to put their 4 month old in day care ($15 to $20k annually) while not getting paid for the quarter of the year.
Around 40 to 45% of women in the US don’t even qualify for FMLA because your employer needs to be large (50+ employees) enough and you need to have worked for them long enough to qualify (usually a year).
Blue states fill the gap with their own state run programs (still usually only three months, though you get some pay) but if you’re in a red state the choice for many women is 1) have children and enter financial ruin or 2) don’t have children.
America lags behind most advanced economies in this regard and there isn’t any sign these circumstances will get better.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
the right to take the time off, not the right to be paid for it.
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Manufactured subjectivity for serfs: “Remember , your children are very sacred to us until they are born into in this world; then they become slave-meat for degenerate billionaires.”
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
“Guarantee access to donated leave bank” fuck you. New mothers need a guaranteed six weeks of recovery time and should be able to tag in with their partner for at least a year. Federally guaranteed.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 4 hours ago
Who is expected to donate these sick days?
Are any women not done with children ever going to donate days? Because you might need those for your own pregnancies. And once you have kids, you need all of your sick days because your kids can't go to daycare or school when they're sick. If you're done raising kids, you're probably old enough for aging related illnesses, you'll need those days for managing care and prevention (colonoscopy for example). That leaves the younger single folks without children, who inevitably have fewer sick days to start. I never had any sick days when I was teaching part time, and no health insurance either.Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 hours ago
I think it’s fascinating how they keep doing bizarro socialism (your sick days? our sick days), just to avoid making capitalists contribute to society.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
You couldn’t make this shit up
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Should have posted this in nottheonion honestly.
warm@kbin.earth 4 hours ago
Land of the free
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Home of them vs us
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Thanks for nothing, Elliott Prick.
Also, fuck you.
rogsson@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Thanks I hate it
alaphic@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I live in this state.
These same folks can’t seem to figure out why we’ve had an ever worsening teacher shortage for the last couple of decades or so, btw. (Spoiler alert: It may not solely be due to the fact that everyone who can gets the fuck out of here as soon as humanly possible 🤯)
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
What an uncivilized shithole.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Betting this is only the thin end of the wedge.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 20 minutes ago
What are “donated sick days” don’t you have maternity leave in the USA?
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 minutes ago
It’s where they make you beg your coworkers for their own sick leave to be transferred to you, or have HR send out an email blast begging employees to donate their own meager PTO to you, instead of the employer granting an appropriate amount of sick or maternity leave to begin with.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
Like you get two hours to recover and they shove you back to work.