well not over as such, just means you are about start a whole new very important career.I have friends who have told me that the minute a pregnancy is announced in work, that girls career is effectively over.
well not over as such, just means you are about start a whole new very important career.
I am very envious of anyone who can interrupt their career, fulfil a personal goal (replace with appropriate word depending on what it is) and is able to come back to their job. I would not call that the end of anyone's career but a fantastic opportunity. It's about priorities, isn't it?
the problem i suppose for the company is that while your are away having a baby, they have to train someone up to take your place, then when you return they have to tell that person they are no longer needed, then you might decide in a year or two that you want to have another child! problem starts all over again for the company, ......its a hard one to to call.
the problem i suppose for the company is that while your are away having a baby, they have to train someone up to take your place, then when you return they have to tell that person they are no longer needed, then you might decide in a year or two that you want to have another child! problem starts all over again for the company, ......its a hard one to to call.
Maternity leave is covered by law so that women aren't discriminated against. Someone has to carry the future tax payers, the future doctors , the future waiting staff.
Someone I know at work is returning from ten months maternity leave (4 months of it unpaid). She has asked for, and got, permission to come in late every morning in order to breast feed her ten month old baby.
Is it just me or is that a bit cheeky?
In this case I also think this is a bit cheeky - I know plenty of women who work and breastfeed was well but they pump early morning and leave bottles - its 'll about preparation. Just out of interest - how late does she come in at?
It's very disappointing in terms of women's equality to think these kinds of attitudes still exist.
Of course these attitudes exist - it is naive to think that they dont.
Some workplaces are more accomodating than others. End of.
It probably depends on a number of things, how male oriented or female oriented the workplace is, the ages of the staff, the ability/ease at which someone can be replaced short term etc...
I remember one occasion where 4 women from one department went on maternity leave at around the same time - there were only 7 people in the department. So there was chaos for a while. It happens.
The chaos in your department was down to bad management. Women have to give lots of notice to take maternity leave. It's managements responsibility to put a cover plan in place, hire temps, redistribute workloads etc.
Notice: You must give your employer at least 4 weeks' written notice of your intention to take maternity leave and you must also provide your employer with a medical certificate confirming the pregnancy. If you intend to take the additional 16 weeks’ maternity leave you must provide your employer with at least 4 weeks' written notice. Both these notices can be given at the same time.
Thats not a very family friendly attitude!! So although she is already suffering lack of sleep with a new baby and night feeds, you want her to get up early to pump as well??? No doubt she uses the extra hour to do that. The baby is not existing all day on the one morning feed.
It is in law that she can do this and it was enshrined in law to help encourage breastfeeding.
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/e...ps/after_your_baby_is_born/breastfeeding.html
I mean what is there to stop an employee who has just had a baby to claim that they are breastfeeding and need an hour off each morning??
- source.In this section ‘breastfeeding’ means
breastfeeding a child or expressing breast milk
and feeding it to a child immediately or storing
it for the purpose of feeding it to the child at
a later time.’’.
yes you are entitled to it, does that mean you should use every single hour of it?
No, the chaos was that no one could have predicted 4 highly skilled staff would all be needing maternity leave at the same time. These were staff with professional qualifications, years of experience and on site training and were not easily replaceable - you cant just 'train someone up' in a matter of weeks or months - there is a cost to training too as the trainer is not getting their own job done. Plus, with the qualification set needed it was hard to find someone willing to only cover a maternity leave, people wanted permanent jobs (it was back during boom time as well). Multiply that by 4, at the same time, more than half the dept, and there was chaos.
You dont have to give lots of notice for maternity leave, legally you give 4 weeks notice (although in most cases unofficial notice is given by the fact the woman is obviously pregnant - but not always). An employer cant start training someone new until you have given the official notice though, so 4 highly skilled people to be replaced in 4 weeks - no wonder there was chaos!
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