Sentences with phrase «like paid maternity»

Your company might even provide additional benefits, like paid maternity leave, or you may be eligible for disability insurance.

Not exact matches

As the labor market in the U.S. tightens, employers have turned to perks like paid time off, maternity leave, and signing bonuses — rather than higher wages in some instances — as the carrots they dangle to attract new talent.

But America — the greatest country in the world according to Americans — does not mandate paid maternity leave because requiring companies to offer support to new mothers and fathers would undoubtedly turn America (pronounced «Amurrica») into a weak - kneed nanny state like Europe.

Furthermore, Obama supports paid maternity leave and expansion of programs like the Nurse - Family Partnership, which allows low - income mothers to get one - on - one support from trained nurses.

Many mothers, unfortunately, still don't have access to paid or even unpaid maternity leave and are forced to return to work sooner than they might like.

Maternity pay may mean you have to return to work sooner than you would like.

Other countries (like here in Canada) have a longer, paid, maternity leave, which is voluntary, and I don't know anyone who's been asked why they wouldn't come back to work earlier.

You don't necessarily need to pay an arm and a leg for one who specializes in maternity photography, just someone whose portfolio you like and who is willing to take your suggestions and try new things.

«it gives the impression that every nursing mother is an attention - seeking lunatic» It also works against women who would like to see more paid maternity / parental leave or flex time for working because it gives the idea that THIS is what women are going to do with that extra paid time, show up topless to a public event and sit on the floor nursing in front of a formula company's table.

The ugly is the same, a costly upfront investment but I have actually paid around $ 79 for a little black dress option and that one doesn't work for maternity or breastfeeding like this one does and there's no way it could be paired with blue jeans.

If U.S. women got a year's worth of paid maternity leave like many other developed countries offer, * THAT * would be true breastfeeding support.

We like to think that the U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) covers all families so that even if a couple does not get paid maternity and paternity leave, they can at least take off some time from work without losing their jobs.

I circle back to the fact that Badinter's book and all the others like it are distracting us from addressing the real issues that, unlike co-sleeping and breast - feeding, truly do undermine the social and economic status of American mothers: issues like the inability to find and pay for quality childcare and the lack of paid maternity leave.

And absolutely, the problem is SO MUCH BIGGER than one person's choices: the amount of misinformation floating around out there (and the amount of it that comes from otherwise intelligent, highly trained medical professionals), the lack of help and support for new nursing moms, the lack of adequate maternity leave in the US (in Canada, where I live, one can take up to 50 weeks» leave with unemployment pay), the persistent idea that dads «need» to bottle - feed their babies in order to bond with them, the idea that formula is «normal» and breastfeeding is «best» — in some places it really seems like you'd need a will of iron to keep at it when the going gets tough.

«But if we really want to improve maternal and child health in this country, let's also focus on things that can really do that in the long term — like subsidized day care, better maternity - leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that pay a living wage, for example.»

Ms Harman said there was a «phoney perception» that hard - won rights for part time workers and on issues like maternity leave and pay would remain in place regardless of whether the UK was in the European Union or not.

Collaborating with groups like the National Postdoctoral Association, which works on establishing living wages and paid maternity and paternity leave for postdocs, among other issues, could help make child rearing both financially possible and more gender equitable.

Paying no mind to what I just said about dresses, I do love this one slim - fitting navy blue dress from Veronique Maternity with side ruching that is like a walking birth announcement.

WoW a 35 hr work week and I think a 5 week vacation a year plus holiday - days and also women get like 16 - 24 weeks «maternity» leave depending on how many kids at birth 16 for 1 and 26 for twins and it's paid!!

Most importantly, companies subscribe to this model because it involves lower overheads — the business has fewer employees and so is able to reduce the financial and administrative burden which accompanies things like paid sickness absence, disciplinary and grievances hearings, sick - pay, maternity, paternity and parental rights, and pension auto - enrolment.

Apart from other value added features like expert's medical opinion on critical illness, deductible plans for customers who can afford to pay the initial claim amount or with existing cover, the policyholder is eligible for new born baby coverage and maternity charges.

And then things happen like forgetting to fill out Box17A, which I later learned was the difference between receiving my paid maternity leave and paying the state of CA every last penny of said money.

I apparently skipped over Box 17A, and as far as the State of California was concerned, it looked like we were trying to receive more than our fair share of paid maternity leave.

For example, it must pay for things like doctor visits, blood tests, maternity care, mental health care and substance abuse treatment.