Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

I mean I don't know at what economic level paid maternity leave becomes common but there aren't laws guaranteeing it so lower income jobs don't give it as a very hard rule. They'll give you very very limited time off for it but it won't be paid. I'm sure my co-worker could have taken off longer but she makes not very much over minimum wage so every day she takes off is highly meaningful. She put up a brave front all throughout her pregnancy like she just doesn't like not working but I highly doubt she wasn't just covering for it being necessary to work every day possible.

Originally Posted by ribbons

Hi, Fetch - welcome back! The U.S. is the only industrialized nation that does not mandate companies to provide paid parental leave -- only New York, New Jersey, California, Rhode Island, Washington and the District of Columbia have passed paid family leave laws -- otherwise, it's up to individual companies to voluntarily set their own paid parental leave policy.

It's awful this woman had to return to work so soon after a C-section, which is major surgery. Especially if she is lifting anything on the job (absolutely no lifting should be done from 4-6 weeks after a C-section).

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Dude - service industry jobs, which make up most of our work force, generally have no paid time of for anything. Not for childbirth. Not for the death of your child. Not if you’re diagnosed with cancer. Not if you’re dying from a disease. There’s ****ing nothing. And employers shamelessly work people literally to death. I work with a guy who has blood leaking into the joints of his hips. He’s in agony. He can’t afford surgery and wobbles around work everyday carrying big bags of flour and breading around. He’s been there for years so he asked if he could do less physical stuff like inventory. Nope. Carry these 50 lbs bags around all day or lose your job. It’s like that all over. I mean, he’s exhausted, can’t sleep from the pain, trying to remain in recovery from opioid addiction, has been loyal to the company for years and they show more kindness to the machinery. I am NOT being hyperbolic. It is like that.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

I had surgery on Tuesday so I haven’t left my bedroom area since then. My big travel plans for Thanksgiving are seeing if I can walk downstairs and eat dinner at an actual table.

Originally Posted by butthead aka 216

i havent i refuse to in fact. it triggers my ptsd from yrs ago when i thought my ex's anal beads were those edible candy necklaces

Originally Posted by Dr. Rez

Keep it in your pants scottie.