So I’m currently working for a company that doesn’t really offer maternity leave! They’re making me go through loops and holes to get any type of leave.
Here’s the break down
- I can’t take leave before the baby comes. I’d have to request vacation time for that if I need time off.
- I can only submit short term disability through the state starting the day I give birth. Short term disability from the state only gives up to six weeks off with pay.
- If I want more time than six weeks I’d have to request for vacation time again, if I still have any left over. (Total vacation hours my company gives within a year is 80 hours, that’s 2 weeks)
- If I want more time than that, I can take an unpaid leave of absence for up to a year.
So, all in all of what’s listed above, it seems like I’d only get about eight weeks off with baby! Eight weeks is only two months!!! 😱 That’s just ridiculous!!!! I’m appalled that the “corporation” that I work for doesn’t offer more.
How did you moms to be go about getting maternity leave?
How long were you out of work?
And out of all the time out of work, how much of that was actual paid time off?
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