please refresh my memory - maternity leave is 6 weeks if the company has under 50 employees, right?

tia

Re: please refresh my memory - maternity leave is 6 weeks if the company has under 50 employees, right?

NYS short term disability will pay 6 weeks - it's $815 total - for a v-birth, and 8 weeks for a c-sec.

With under 50 employees, there's no FMLA, so technically they don't have to hold your job for you at all. Nice, right?

I'm in the same boat

Re: please refresh my memory - maternity leave is 6 weeks if the company has under 50 employees, right?

awesome I had no idea that they didn't have to hold your job

Re: please refresh my memory - maternity leave is 6 weeks if the company has under 50 employees, right?

Like Nicole said, technically there is no required leave for a company under 50 people at all. They dont have to give you a week if they dont want too, unfortunately. NYS disability, like she said, is 6 weeks.

Re: please refresh my memory - maternity leave is 6 weeks if the company has under 50 employees, right?

actually they have to by law allow you 6 weeks for natrual birth or 8 weeks for c-section and they ARE required to hold your job, not your position. 50 or more employees only applies to FMLA which would grant you additional time unpaid past the 6/8 weeks time.

you can all verify this on DOL.gov under the section for employees

Re: please refresh my memory - maternity leave is 6 weeks if the company has under 50 employees, right?

Is there anything else that we can apply to after the 6-8 weeks disability? I don't understand how they expect people to live on that money.. it won't even buy you diapers!