A hospital is reporting a baby boom.
  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1201·
    9 days ago

    And all 14 going for a 1 year paid maternity leave at same time. Fun time for those at work 😜

      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        212·
        9 days ago

        It doesn’t? No idea, but I’d expect developed country like USA to have paid maternity leave

            • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
              164·
              9 days ago

              That may be federal, but some states (and i do mean some) have something called FMLA provided by the state. The one I am in guaranteed you 8 weeks and I believe it was just raised to 12 weeks. Granted it’s not great because it’s a lot of paperwork, you don’t get paid right away, you won’t make what you did if you were working, and not all the weeks are payable! But you are allowed this if you want it and your job can’t fire you. If your job is good enough, which normally they are, you can combine the state time off with your jobs time off to add on an extra month or 2. My wife’s a teacher so she did this and used all the sick time and vacation time she had saved over the years to take an extra few months on top of FMLA so she was able to have our kid in December and take the rest of the school year off from January to June then get summer break and return in sept. So still not a year, but 9 months wasn’t bad either. I on the other hand got 2 weeks and our 2nd kid I took 3 weeks of vacation. Sadly everyone’s experience is different and you won’t know what you will have because it’s up to the state and job which is stressful on its own. Most places from what I have seen with friends are not trying to screw you, but I would say the average I’ve seen people take is 1 month.

              Edit: so I just looked and since it’s been a few years since I have last needed it i haven’t followed it. Looks like FMLA has spread to more states and looks like about 12 (mostly blue states of course) now have this at the state level. https://onpay.com/insights/paid-family-leave-by-state/

              • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
                15·
                9 days ago

                Just an FYI, the FMLA itself does not pay you. It only protects your job so you cannot lose it or be replaced while out on leave.

                • kevlar21@lemm.ee
                  6·
                  9 days ago

                  Also, FMLA is federal (for now anyway). The article is about paid family medical leave in some states, which they abbreviate PFML.

                • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  8 days ago

                  Sorry, yes you are correct. The paid leave comes from the state that added onto this. It was 4 weeks’ pay from the state. She was allowed 6 in total. After that was up, it was up to the school district to allow her the rest of the time off. The time off allowed came from her accrued sick time and vacation over the years. She still needed the request approved by the board since it was a lot of time. 2 and a half of those months were also summer, which she is off for anyway.

            • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world
              132·
              9 days ago

              Most companies offer paid maternity leave. Lower hourly would mostly be the exception to that.

              Sadly there isn’t a minimum set by law.

            • Kaboom@reddthat.com
              81·
              9 days ago

              It’s per state when it comes to maternity leave. This map would be like saying “The EU doesn’t have laws on maternity leave so no one gets any” when every country there has its own.

                • Kaboom@reddthat.com
                  35·
                  9 days ago

                  I forgot about FMLA. We have 12 weeks of maternity leave, you just have to work there for a few months beforehand. You can’t just join up 9 months pregnant and immediately go on maternity leave. Imo, it’s kinda fair.

            • Tilgare@lemmy.world
              6·
              9 days ago

              I also would have expected a hospital to offer some of the best health insurance in the country - I was agast when my wife got a job and we realized it was trash tier compared to her major corporation retail job she had previous to that. So yes, maybe - but I don’t think it’s a given or a safe assumption by any means.

  • Hux@lemmy.ml
    79·
    9 days ago

    14 pregnant nurses and one glistening “Fertility Doctor” who just roams around the halls in an open bathrobe chugging orange juice straight out of the container.

  • Delphia@lemmy.world
    481·
    9 days ago

    Sources report that the tall dark and handsome radiologist is shitting himself.

  • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
    23·
    9 days ago

    Depends on how big the hospital is… Just asked one of my clients…they have around 100 pregnant nurses at any time. Well,they have around 2500 of them tbh.

  • dryfter@lemm.eeEnglish
    191·
    9 days ago

    I once worked at a retail job where at one time I had to work the 7AM shift. I get there and I’m the only male and all three of the female coworkers were pregnant.

    I learned more about the female body than any single man should ever know.

  • j_co@lemmy.world
    172·
    9 days ago

    “Yeah, we had a fun holiday work party, pretty normal. We didnt go that crazy.” - To their husbands/bfs when arriving home at 3am with tossled hair.