PSA: 2019 WA employees with new Babies

[schuss]

Love how we are incentivizing people to have children in our state. I'm all for paying taxes to send your stupid offspring to school, but giving you vacation time is straight fucked.

I do love all my friends children and if you choose to do so that is awesome. We need more normal folks having babies to offset the derps. Taxing me for a vacation I will never take is pretty dumb

It's more terrible corporate policies forcing their hand. A woman is not generally ready to go back physically, let alone mentally, 6 weeks after birth, but that's the state of many places (you technically get 12 weeks unpaid, but paying for the birth+3 months of lost wages is beyond most).

[KQ]

Paid? Accumulated vacation and sick? Disability insurance? The internet says delta provides 6 weeks paid and 12 weeks unpaid...

Or she had that many babies and you are adding it all together?

Does she work for Delta in another country?

Delta was sued due to not providing places for women to pump breast milk.. seems like with that much maternity leave available working and pumping would not be unnecessary.

I question this comment about "five years of maternity leave" because it makes people think women will take advantage of maternity leave...

Or that there is plenty of leave available... there isnt.

For crying out loud, come on now.

This is my friend. I know her. I witnessed her on maternity leave. She had two kids (1995 & 1998) and was off work with her position in place for 5 years. After 5 years she stepped back into her job at the same level she'd been at before. I did not discuss her financial situation with her but suffice to say she was not lacking (yes, she was/is married). She hubs out of SLC. She was on leave to have and raise her children.

Yeah, even with having multiple children... I cant see it being true and it sucks when people tell lies like these because people believe them.

Fuck you. You really are insufferable.

[mtngirl79]

For crying out loud, come on now.

This is my friend. I know her. I witnessed her on maternity leave. She had two kids (1995 & 1998) and was off work with her position in place for 5 years. After 5 years she stepped back into her job at the same level she'd been at before. I did not discuss her financial situation with her but suffice to say she was not lacking (yes, she was/is married). She hubs out of SLC. She was on leave to have and raise her children.




Fuck you. You really are insufferable.

Sounds like they hired her back after 5 years which is way different from "maternity leave".

Fuck you, too.

[wooley12]

CAT FIGHT!!!!

There is maternity leave and then there is paid maternity leave.

I know a boomer-aged stewie. Worked a light load of International flights out of NYC until she was 65. I'd kid her about how the stewardesses today are different from back in the "Fly Me" days.

[AK47bp]

As a boner riddled little creeper kid I’d always take the aisle seat so the stewardesses would brush their asses by my shoulder when they walked by. I’d then take a deep whiff of their perfume and fall in love.


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[wooley12]

There's a thing that they do that stewies call "crop dusting" as a flight descends.

[AK47bp]

Bump reminder.


Any moms and pops out there that had a kid in 2019 can get 12 weeks paid leave within 12 months of birth from the state to bond with your kiddo.

This means mom can take 12 weeks and then dad can take 12 weeks separately to give 24 weeks of bonding or take them at the same time (as long as your baby momma doesn’t annoy the crap outta you).

Remember, this is an entitlement so it’s illegal for your employer to deny your leave request.

Coordinating with FMLA these two entitlements can be stacked for baby bonding. 24 weeks with mum, 24 weeks with pop, baby gets 48 weeks (plus the 4 weeks pregnancy disability) so a full year with parents (no daycare bill).

PM me if any yinz need more info.

You can’t apply until 1/1/20

https://www.paidleave.wa.gov/workers?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItNvZjZfA5gIVDMNkCh22DgbmEAAYASACEgJZnPD_BwE

Depending on how your employer structured this you may be able to take your PTO and sick pay on top of the state benefit, yes, this means you can actually be paid more while on leave than at work. Employer just has to categorize the PTO/sick as “supplemental” with the state.

[SkiLyft]

So great!!


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[The AD]

A guy I work with was hoping to take advantage of this and then he found out it doesn't apply to him because we're union:

3. You are not a federal employee, employed by an employer who has an approved exemption because paid family and medical leave benefits are provided through a voluntary plan, or covered by a collective bargaining agreement that hasn’t been opened or renegotiated since before October 19, 2017.

[AK47bp]

A guy I work with was hoping to take advantage of this and then he found out it doesn't apply to him because we're union:

Ouch. Yup there are some CBA provisions that exclude certain agreements. When those agreements expire and they renew they will likely include WAPFML.

Doesn’t help him now though.

[neufox47]

I can only imagine the look on my bosses face if I tried taking this (in CA but we have a similar option). I’m pretty sure my bonus for that year would be zilch.

[AK47bp]

I can only imagine the look on my bosses face if I tried taking this (in CA but we have a similar option). I’m pretty sure my bonus for that year would be zilch.

Gotta love America.

[Yonder_River]

Glad it finally happened, but as neo said that's a stretch for certain types of critical employees to swing. 1k max weekly and only a 2/3 income reimbursement will make it a nogo for some as well. Good that it's flexible enough to accommodate a modified work week though.

[shroom]

loved seeing this email come through last week. good bump

[The AD]

I can only imagine the look on my bosses face if I tried taking this (in CA but we have a similar option). I’m pretty sure my bonus for that year would be zilch.

Seriously? In this day and age that's pretty pathetic.