Countries with both maternal and paternal leave, only maternal leave, or no paid leave.

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Literally the witch in Hansel and Gretel cared more about kids.

At least she was feeding them.

Lost S02E15 (Maternity Leave)

Book title: Lancelot (1977) by Walker Percy

Please ignore the US-centric and negative slant in the headline--tumblr doesn't let you edit link previews anymore!

But this is good news!

A majority of the world's countries now offer paid paternity leave.

"Sixty-three percent of countries around the world provide guaranteed paid parental leave for fathers, according to a report out Tuesday morning from the World Policy Analysis Center.

Why it matters

Though support is growing for paternity leave, there's still a stigma attached to men who take time off to care for their children. Yet, studies find numerous benefits for the economy, for fathers, and for their partners.

"There is widespread recognition that we don't solve gender equality without dads getting leave," says Jody Heymann, founding director of the policy center and a UCLA distinguished professor of public health and public affairs.

The big picture

Back in the 1990s, only 46 countries had a paid leave policy for fathers, largely high-income nations, per the policy center's data. Now the number is nearly three times as high."

-via Axios, 2/28/23

For the second time in as many years, the Senate Education Committee’s chairman and other lawmakers are trying to pass a paid maternity leave bill for teachers.

Part of Sen. Adam Pugh’s education agenda, SB 364 would require districts to provide 12 weeks of paid maternity leave for teachers, the bill and Pugh’s education agenda come as the House has already passed its own education plan that does not include a maternity leave requirement for teachers.

“I honestly can’t think of a more pro-life thing that we can do in this body than support moms who just had a baby,” Pugh (R-Edmond) said in a committee hearing Feb. 14. “When I start to look at what most civilized nations around the world are doing, they’re doing significantly more than 12 weeks.”

If passed, the legislation would put Oklahoma ahead of many other states regarding teacher benefits.

While teachers qualify for the Family and Medical Leave Act, a national law passed by Congress in 1993 that requires employers to provide employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year, only 13 states and the District of Columbia have paid parental leave laws, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, D.C., think tank. Oklahoma is not one of those states currently.

For teachers specifically, an Education Week article from August indicates that only a “handful” of states provide paid maternity leave for teachers.

Of the states that border Oklahoma, only Missouri and Colorado have paid parental leave laws for teachers. Arkansas, Kansas and New Mexico governors have all signed executive orders providing parental leave to employees of state agencies, but those orders do not apply to teachers.

Supreme Court of the United States Syllabus for Jo Carol LaFleur v. Cleveland Board of Education, et al.

Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans AffairsSeries: Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service

(slip opinion) - top right: 42 USC § 1983 Public Teachers - Mandatory Maternity Leave, Due Process NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released as is being done in connection with this case, at the time of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States vs. Detroit Lumber Co., 200 U.S. 321, 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus CLEVELAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ET AL. v LaFLEUR ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT No. 72-777. Argued OCtober 15, 1973 --- Decided January 21, 1974* Pregnant public school teachers brought these actions under U. S. C. § 1983 challenging the constitutionality of mandatory maternity leave rules of the Cleveland Ohio (No. 72-777), and Chesterfield County, Virginia (No. 72-1129(, School Boards. The Cleveland rule requires a pregnant school teacher to take unpaid maternity leave five months before the expected childbirth, with leave application to be made at least two weeks before her departure. Eligibility to return to work is not accorded until the next regular semester after her child is three months old. The Chesterfield County rule requires the teacher to leave work at least four months, and to give notice at least six months, before the anticipated childbirth. Re-employment is guaranteed no later than the first day of the school year after the date she is declared re-eligible. Both schemes require a physician's certificate of physical fitness prior to the teacher's return. Each Court of Appeals reversed the court below, one holding the Chesterfield County maternity leave rule constitutional, the other holding the Cleveland rule unconstitutional. Held: 1. The mandatory termination provisions of both maternity rules violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Pp. 6-15 (a) The arbitrary cutoff dates (which obviously come at different times of the school year for different school teachers) have no valid relationship to the State's interest in preserving continuity. *Together with No. 72-1129, Cohen v. Chesterfield County School Board et al., on centiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. [full transcription at link]

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So, there’s a December fic I’m writing and I’d like you to help me choose a baby name 🧡💛

I would like you to be as connected to this story as possible, so selecting a name you’d like seems to be a pretty important part of establishing that attachment :)

(I’ll be reblogging this every few days so take your time deciding—it should be open for a week!)

I am literally only on the first scene of Step By Step, episode 7, and I must, MUST ASK, AS AN AMERICAN MOM:

DOES THAILAND ALLOW FOR MATERNITY LEAVE….WHILE YOU’RE STILL PREGNANT???

AND: 180 DAYS? SIX MONTHS? SIX MONTHS OF LEAVE???

UMMMMMMMMMM?

GUESS WHO HAD HER BABIES IN THE WRONG COUNTRY.

Labour turns its back on workers’ rights

“Labour has undermined the principle of universality that underpins its entire programme for employment rights. This means a tiered system of rights and entitlements will remain in place and makes the pledge to give all workers the same rights from day one impossible.

“When the New Deal was originally developed, the Labour leader, his cabinet and the party’s affiliated trade unions shared a vision. They sought to build a dignified workplace in which workers – from the moment they took up employment – would have the ability to take time away after the birth of a child or a bereavement, to enjoy a decent work-life balance and not to be arbitrarily dismissed.

“The document was a recognition of the fact that the tiered system is one of the key drivers of low pay and insecurity, responsible for 3.7 million being trapped in ‘insecure work’ who do not know when their next shift will be or if they will be able to pay their bills ... The New Deal was designed to end the most exploitative practices in the gig economy – where workers are often paid below the minimum wage, made to work in dangerous conditions and denied rest breaks. One such example is Amazon delivery drivers, who have been forced to drive through exhaustion and urinate in bottles ...

“The lack of rights and protections is not just a problem for those in insecure forms of work. It is a problem for workers and the economy as a whole. These practices put a downward pressure on wages and terms across the board, making us all poorer and facilitating a race to the bottom that is partly responsible for Britain’s poor growth and productivity. 

“The expansion of the gig economy in particular demonstrates how exploitative employment practices threaten once-secure jobs. The assault by Royal Mail against the terms and conditions of posties, for example, is a response to gig economy parcel delivery companies undercutting the postal service.”

Now processing: the papers of Professor Laura J. Cooper, who was heavily involved in the implementation of anti-discrimination procedures at the U of M in the wake of the Rajender Consent Decree.

These pamphlets from the National Lawyers Guild, Parents in the Workplace, and the Council on the Economic Status of Women have the best illustrations.

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Went back to work today because maternity leave in my country is a ~*joke*~ BUT it was a great day even if I wanted to go home the whole time <3 I think my baby grew three inches the nine hours I was gone, though