Maternity Leave at your job

what's the policy where you work?

I think mine is relatively lame! We get 6 weeks paid at 80% (i believe) for a vaginal birth, 8 weeks for c-section. Cheap!

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90 days of disability with full pay, which is what I am on right now for the past month. My mat leave starts on the day of the birth of the baby, I'll have 16 weeks with full pay.

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I can take 7 months off and choose to use accrued time if I wish. They do not pay me for any of it. I work for the state.

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I get 90% of my pay for 6 weeks, and a further 9 months pay at a stauatory amount (about $180 a week) and than a further 3 months unpaid. My company is than legally required to hold my job or a comperable job for me to return to.

One good reason to live in Europe.

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so long as i'm not affected by our company layoffs - i get 12 weeks, fully paid. my company has OUTSTANDING benefits...i have to say - i love working for them...i hope i can continue to do so!

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I get 6 weeks paid at 60%. Concurrently, I take FMLA which will get me 12 weeks off from work (unpaid)

It bites, but I'm happy to have a job these days.

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I get 12 weeks. And then I can use my vacation time with that also.

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6 wks vaginal, 8 wks c section. No pay just NYS disability which is a joke.

ETA: I work for a small company so I don't get the 12wk FMLA. It really sucks.

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I get 8-10 weeks w/ full pay depending on a vag or C section.
I can take up to 6 months total (the remainder unpaid, UNLESS I have a medical reason for 'medical leave')

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I get 6 weeks full pay for vaginal or 8 weeks for c/s and then 6 weeks unpaid for a total of 12 weeks fmla.

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2 weeks prior to birth, 6 weeks after - out of those 8 weeks, 4 are paid at 100%, 4 at 80%

then I get an additional 4 weeks from my company paid at 100%

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I've been on ML since 12/15. We don't get paid anything either. I used my vacation and PTO days which amounted to about 4 weeks total pay.

I am entitled to 6 wks disability but haven't seen any of those checks yet. We also have FMLA.

I have decided to go back the week of 2/15 officially because it makes sense financially to do so because I can do a lot of my work from home when I am not seeing clients. I also am very fortunate that my inlaws who live nearby can watch him whenever I need them (parents also agreed to come down and stay if inlaws need to go away for a few days).

On a positive, as of last week, my job did however agree to pay me and keep my health insurance in place until I go back to work because I am doing some work for them from home they have no one else to do right now.

I don't think it's going to be my regular paycheck, but it's something!!!

The 16th will be here before I know it anyways........

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I get 12 weeks- 6 are paid at 70% and the other 6 are unpaid- plus I can hook up any vac time to it as well

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totally unpaid.

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That's pretty good actually!

We get nothing... just up to 12 weeks FMLA which isn't paid. I can use all of my sick/vacation time that I have saved up though so I plan to do that since we accrue a ton of time here (I work for a college).

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I work for a school district and I have to use all of my accumulated sick days and then 12 weeks of unpaid FMLA leave.

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I am self-employed so I get zilch!

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I have no idea what I will get. I will probably have that conversation in a couple of months.

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12 weeks paid.

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Teacher: 2 days paid given by district
use up as many sick days as I want (paid) after that I have to take unpaid leave

May take up to 1 full year off but not guaranteed same job upon returning.

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thats really good... we dont get anything...

nys disability- and paying for aflac covg- but thats only 6 or 8 weeks... then i'll be using up my 1 week sick and 2 weeks vacation.. so if i have a natural birth then im still 3 weeks short

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nada! i get 8 weeks unpaid so im saving my sick and vacation time to use which adds up to 3 weeks. after that i'll be relying on disability which is peanuts!