You’re welcome/I’m sorry.
What possible benefit to society could less-stressed out parents and more well-adjusted kids conceivably have? Stop talking gibberish.
YASSS QUEEN. Sacred cows slaughtered. Fuck all the fascists, I don’t care if they’re oldsters who were once good at the hockey.
https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1231704008978358272?s=21
They weren’t even good at hockey though, they got incredibly lucky in one major game and a few others leading up to it.
How does the job protection work exactly? What I’m most curious about is if there a minimum employer size before it applies?
As someone who was 10 in 1980, the miracle on ice was fucking awesome. One of my top 5 sports memories. Kansas City has no hockey team, but I remember the whole town going nuts. I watched the final (vs. Finland) with my Mom and aunts who are only fans of Chiefs and Royals and know nothing about sports - and they were so into it.
I don’t give a shit if they’re deplorables now or weren’t that good.
Who pays for it? The state or the employer?
Well, I can see a company like Amazon dealing with that easily, but for a smaller business I could see it being really tough. Are there really no exceptions made for smaller employers?
So if someone has a small business with one employee and that one person is out on maternity leave, they have to hire someone to cover for them and then they have to fire them when the original employee comes back?
Also what happens if that first employee is out for over a year and then second employee who has now been with the business for one year goes out on maternity leave (we’ll say she got pregnant two months in)? The business owner has to guarantee the second employee’s job too, even if he only has one position open?
What’s the penalty to employer if job isn’t available when employee wants to return?
Does the leave have to be continuous? Can the employee take 3 months off. Come back for a month and then decide that they need more time and say take another 3 months off?
What if the job literally doesn’t exist? For example let’s say someone hires a nanny to take care of their young children. Nanny gets pregnant and takes maternity leave. When she comes back over a year later, kids are older and nanny is no longer needed.
Don’t get me wrong. I think that as a nationwide policy it’s not a bad thing to have, but I’m not sure it’s something that every single employer (especially very small ones) can be reasonably expected to guarantee.
https://twitter.com/plies/status/1231237197619134465
I’ve watched this about 10 times. Some serious life advice in there.
Also dude is an elite speaker. Just perfect timing, perfect inflection, perfect eye contact.
https://twitter.com/plies/status/1230129683368488960
OMG this dude is amazing. I’m going down the rabbit hole. All videos are exactly 1 minute long - which is fucking brilliant on its own.
As a side note - ever since I turned 40 I always, always, always type the wrong version of it’s/its. Its annoying as fuck.
Ok nevermind on the exactly 1 minute thing. I based on sample size of 2. Might be a leak.
The trial starts today of Francois Fillon, the man who probably would now be president of France if not for being a massive grifter/corrupt pos. I post it just because it’s amusing to contrast what destroyed this guy’s political career compared to Trump. It’s not in the same league but it totally incensed large parts of French society, myself included, when it came out. It still really pisses me off now, whilst I do barely more than chuckle when the latest tale of Trump making the Secret Service pay him hundreds of grand breaks to indifference.
Fillon’s crime was pretending that his wife was his parliamentary assistant for years and years, when she, in fact, did absolutely no work whatsoever.1 It is somewhat comical reading about their defence—they claim she did the work from their home in the countryside and did it all verbally so as to explain why she had never set foot inside the parliament building, had no official email address and there’s not even a single document to attest to the work. It’s small change for the big boys of corruption, but they got 1.3 million euros over the years.
Anyway, fuck Francois Fillon, that’s all you really need to know.
1 That’s the main scam, he also made an underling ‘employ’ her whilst he was off being the Prime Minister (French ministers don’t sit in parliament), and he also employed his kids and then (nice touch, this) took most of the money out of their bank accounts and deposited it into his.
Should add, for balance, that this was a massive scam in the French system for years and years until they changed the rules about employing family members a while back. Fillon stands out, though, because Penelope just blatantly did absolutely nothing whilst being paid the maximum, whereas the rest actually did do work and were often part time alongside an actual assistant—so the annoyance was about blatant nepotism and cushy jobs, as opposed to straight up theft of a cool 1 million.
The employer pays insurance for that as. The money comes from health insurance. You only have to pay some part of this yourself as a company if you sent your employer home to early. If you dont explore all avenues of lower risk jobs at your firm the woman could do the health insurance can say they dont pay for it and will only start paying for period guaranteed by law. So you better get your doctor to write you a notice that you arent allowed to work anymore and its no problem for the employer. As women tend to get older when they are getting children risky pregnancies become more common and you get usually a notice by your doctor pretty early if you really want to. Best case is you decide on a date beforehand if you have a good relationship with your doctor so it minimizes the fallout for the employer even more if he knows exactly how long a pregnant employee will still be able to work.
Oh wow that must be hard to train new staff when one of your two employees goes on maternity leave. The horror. Maybe the the other co-owners could help out I dunno seems like this lady is being worked to death picking up all the slack from pregnant people.
CR has an interesting system. You get 28 weeks of paid leave that starts 8 weeks prior to the estimated birth date. After the baby is born, the remaining 20 weeks can be split between the parents. During those weeks, they get 70 percent pay and can’t lose their job.
After that leave, men go back to work. But women can choose to stay at home and in return, receive a smaller payment from the government. The longer they stay at home (allowed up to 4 years), the smaller the payout.
At least where I work, they cannot lose their job if they choose to stay at home for those early years. Not sure if that applies to private businesses though.
In France it’s 80% pay (roughly) for 16 weeks, paid by the state social insurance scheme. Paternity leave is rubbish (11 consecutive days), but both parents have the right to ask to work at 80% (time & salary) for a year in the first 3 years after birth, and the insurance will pay part of the money you lose in salary. You get longer for twins or the second kid etc.
Edit - I should add that in practice the latter is complicated. We decided not to do it as we figured the chances are that, due to the nature of her job, my wife would probably not really get a reduction in the work expected of her. Therefore, when the year was up, why wouldn’t her employer just prefer to keep her at 80% salary? (I’m self employed so it doesn’t really apply.)
This leap day and year would be the last ever if two scholars have their way
They would replace the calendar with a new version. Theirs, the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar, is 364 days long. It is consistent: The year always begins on a Monday. Your birthday always falls on the same day of the week.
“The calendar will be exactly the same, every year,” said Richard Conn Henry, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and one of the calendar’s designers.
February would always have 30 days, as would January, April, May, July, August, October and November. The other four months would have 31 days. There would be no February leap days.
Sounds pretty nice and simple so far…
Instead, “every five or six years,” Henry said, “we’ll have an extra week at the end when you can party.”
Aaaaaand we’re off the rails.