[Alberta's Child]

I run my own business. If the government forces me to implement a "paid family leave" policy, I'll simply refrain from hiring young parents and prospective parents.

I don't give a damn if the U.S. is the only "advanced" country in the world that doesn't have paid family leave. This idea that an employer is somehow obligated to pay wages when work isn't getting done is one of the most ludicrous, unsustainable aspects of a modern economy.

[Kaslin]

In Germany a woman who works gets six weeks paid maternety leave, before birth of the baby and six weeks after birth. However she gets 12 weeks if she breast feeds the baby. It's the law. How ever if a female is hired and (as they are always asked if they are pregnant or not but are denying they are and know it they can be fired and there is nothing they can do about it.

I was working 30 km from my home town in Germany but quit my job before my husband who had come to Germany with his company from Fort Knox, KY during the Berlin crisis. Our son was born in the American Hospital in Nuremberg. The bill for him was $5.00 which at the time was 19 German Marks. I told them what it was and they paid me 70 German marks, which was around $19.00, not bad, huh?

[ridesthemiles]

12 weeks out of 52==23 % of a year...

AN EMPLOYER is required to pay 23% of a years salary for ZERO? work????

I would be hiring 50 plus year old military vets.