Why does the United States not have mandated paid maternity

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So, you're saying the newborn baby of a highly valued employee deserves a better start at life than one you're simply abusing for their labour? And only IF the employer wants to grant them leave? They could decide they're too valuable & needed at work and not let them have their leave.

Companies don't pay out of pocket for maternity/paternity leave. It's paid out via government - through Employment Insurance - which is paid into by every employee And every employer in the entire Province via payroll deductions & employer contributions, much like any group insurance policy.

Because all babies deserve parents around during their earliest days. USA doesn't comprehend this - same same for healthcare. Too much "I gots mine, F everybody else!" mentality going on down there.

Lmao at paid maternity leave. I have 0 chance of any reproduction, not only because of my ASD, also because I'm of African origin (few Af origin women in my dating pool) . We have lavish maternity leave in my current home country btw.

I am all for unpaid maternity leave but can't support paid one. Ppl should pay the leave cost from their savings.

I was employed for 3 years and saved half my pay (because I was so averse of going anywhere except staying in my home). This despite paying all the taxes on my income.

NTs can even save more since they find better deals and can pool their resources.

I'm not joking. My sister got govt housing and easy job despite I got none. NT vs ASD in nutshell.

And if someone gets pregnant at a young age before being able to save up a large sum of money?

And if they live in an are where it's next to impossible to save 10% never mind 50% of their income? Some places have extremely low incomes, others have extremely high costs (like where I live) - and so in these places only the wealthiest people should be allowed to have time to ensure their infants are well looked after and have an opportunity to thrive?

I much prefer the system that we have here in Canada & many European countries have: Everyone shoulders the cost for the benefit of everyone in collective society.

Afaik teenage pregnancy is rare and ppl having it can get help from certain programs if their parents don't help them.

They could take a loan if they have ability to function. Still this is women's perspective, I don't understand how ASD women behave.

But personally I am very unlikely to reproduce until I die.

Who said anything about someone getting abused for labor? Look, this is all very simple and easy. Do you want employees or not? If you want employees, you make your workplace more attractive, also meaning you have attractive policies and benefits. Don’t overly complicate things. If the work environment is hostile and you’re being abused, then seek employment elsewhere.

I’ll fill you in on a little secret: I felt that my church gig last year turned abusive...actually had felt for a few years, just felt helpless to get out of it. I was ready to walk out of a church service because of how a certain member was treating me and how nothing was being done about it. I was prepared for that to be my last paycheck when COVID hit. And at my school gig, I watched all the funding I’d worked so hard to get for my program evaporate right in front of me because other arts teachers believed they had rights to it. It was money earmarked for MY CLASSES, for equipment and materials. I went from having $30,000 to having $6,000. I started training my coworkers on what to do if I got fired, because I was expecting it. When COVID hit, I was producing instructional videos around the clock for 2 solid weeks. I left it up to the students after that, I did my job to take care of inventory at the end of the school year, and then I started applying to every school in the state I knew was looking for a band director and even to a few schools who weren’t. I made cold calls, the works. I found a private school willing to pay me 6 times my former salary, and about 6 months after I started my new job I got a new church gig. Nothing is ever perfect. But you know what? I don’t feel that I’m being abused, I’ve still got a steady part-time, and I’ve got opportunities everywhere to boost my income. All I have to do is wait.

Putting up with abuse and lack of incentives to work are not things any of us have to tolerate. If you are a woman and you’re looking for a company that won’t fire you for being pregnant and will offer paid parental leave, you can find or create jobs that offer those benefits. That’s a choice. This idea of some permanent victim class in which women can only suffer abuse and have no choices for employment and what they can reasonably expect from employers is pure fiction.

Why should women be locked out of certain jobs because the employers are unwilling to accommodate the fact that they reproduce?

Who's claiming they even are locked out of certain jobs? Besides, even if that's the case, then just don't work for those employers. Every employee or potential employee can take responsibility on their own to decide whether they want to work for jerks or not.

Let me put it another way: Why would you WANT to work for jerks? If an employer is unwilling to accommodate someone for any reason, why decide to work for them in the first place? I spent a significant time working for jerks. It didn't start out that way. I never intended to work in a toxic environment. When I understood that things would never improve, I moved on. I fired my employers and found a better situation to work in. It's long been part of my philosophy, I've repeated this often over the past few years on here. I've encouraged certain WP'ers if they find themselves in a bad situation and they feel stuck, sometimes all you can do is just move. I stand behind that regardless of the nature of any relationship we're discussing. If it's work related and you're dealing with a bad boss, you quit and find a new job. When you're talking about job descriptions and benefits and you specifically want parental leave, you look for that, you ask for that, you negotiate that, and if they won't offer that, you walk away from the table.

Seriously, how difficult is this to comprehend? You don't need expanded government, increased taxes, and wealth redistribution to take charge of your own life and make things happen.

You think any C level jobs would hire women and offer maternity leave if they didn't have to?

Why allow businesses to operate as jerks in an economy at all when you can just have a simple employment standard that they must offer it?

How is it difficult to comprehend that without regulation, employers do what's profitable, not necessarily what's right? Why allow employers to be the gatekeepers that decide whether you get healthcare or maternity/paternity leave when it can simply be required and provided to all?

Increased taxes? Canada's healthcare systems cost a fraction to administer per capita as America's, and everyone is covered.

Pretty much. Remember when Jesus called a woman a dog just because she was a Samaritan?

We also have a legislative system where the minority opinion is almost always successful in getting their way if their only goal is to stop progress. Things don't improve until there's a 70% supermajority of support, and even then the courts try to stop it. Even FDR had trouble and he was massively popular. I think the difference is these days the wealthy have gotten far more skilled at pushing subtle propaganda. That and things aren't as horrific as they were back then. There will have to be a lot more suffering before real change can happen. If the population growth flatlines the regressive funding scheme for SS will no longer work and the right will use that as an excuse to destroy it. I think population growth being necessary for the system to function is pretty backwards as the world doesn't really need more and more people. It's only the very very rich who really benefit from population growth and eventually they don't even benefit.

Our population will never "flatline"----because of extensive immigration into our country.

It's even worse than that. Without regulation businesses have to be a cheap as possible to compete. It takes one bad actor to spoil the rest. Everyone likes to single out the worst people, like Jeff Bezos, but the problem isn't specific to any individual CEO. Every single one of them will do whatever they can to cut costs. Having rules is the only thing that can stop them. That or unions, but the US decided to destroy unions now that the baby boomers are on the way out. Talk about pulling the ladder up behind you!

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Immigration in and of itself isn't a bad thing, but it has certainly fueled Trumpism. Immigrant birthrates will eventually fall too though. It's insanity that we need constant population growth. I'm beginning to think nothing in this world is rational at all and we are headed for something really nasty as a species.

I read an article or two saying that the USA is about to see the biggest labour movement it's seen in a generation as huge sectors of the economy begin to organize & unionize. Especially order fulfilment places like Amazon, delivery services, Uber drivers and other gig economy workers etc -> all the major businesses that have been abusing people by underpaying them for their labour.

Could happen.

The mountains in Mexico are quite beautiful. Let the employees have the companies. Let the unions take over completely. Get CEO's and dedicated employees to buy land in Mexico, move there, open new businesses, and see what happens in the USA when unions have no creative ideas to leech.

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