Sentences with phrase «where paid maternity»

In countries such as the US, where paid maternity leave doesn't exist, let alone leave for the father, things are even worse.

For many mothers, especially in the United States where paid maternity leave isn't mandated, choosing to breastfeed often means pumping several times a day.

Not exact matches

Where possible, these qualifying criteria will mirror the criteria for existing entitlements such as maternity pay and allowance and paternity pay and leave so that families will be able to easily work out their entitlement.

So a good reason for policy makers to support paid maternity leave and to set up policies where more women are able to choose to breastfeed if they wish to.

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.

Where regulations are lacking is paid maternity leave.

If your company doesn't offer paid maternity leave, and you can't afford to take unpaid leave try to work out a flexible schedule where you might be able to work from home several days per week for the first six weeks after your baby's birth, or possibly ask to work part time for a period of time.

Some countries are moving in the same direction as Sweden, where parents receive 14 weeks of maternity leave and 10 days of paternity leave at about 80 — 90 % pay.

He adds: «Today, we live in a society where women must work twice as hard as men to achieve «equal» pay, particularly following maternity leave.

In Capita v Ali, the EAT ruled that a failure to mirror enhanced maternity pay was not direct discrimination, at least where the enhancement is only for the first part of maternity leave (at least the first 14 weeks, possibly 26 weeks).

Joe Soll, a psychotherapist and adoption reform activist, says that CPCs «funnel people to adoption agencies who put them in maternity homes,» where ambivalent mothers are subjected to moralistic and financial pressure: warned that if they don't give up their babies, they'll have to pay for their spot at the home, and given conflicted legal counsel from agency - retained lawyers.