Does filing for paternity leave now (baby due in a few months) offer any kind of protection during layoffs before it takes affect? Does it make it more difficult, legally, to let me go?

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From what I’ve seen at other companies, yes.

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Only if you’re the mother ...she’s the only one legally protected with current legislation.

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Marginally more protected than a working mother

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Do it and make it widely known when your family is expecting. Legally, maybe not, but Accenture won’t take the PR risk with firing you

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To be clear, by filing now I just mean get it in the system so the firm is aware I'm taking it. Practice isn't selling a lot and I'm worried they may make moves in the next month or two.

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If your partner needed bed rest, potentially, but that time period would eat into your actual leave.

Similar stuff for FMLA, but that's unpaid.

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I think it certainly makes it more difficult for them to lay you off once you've filed. It's more of a risk to lay you off after you've filed. I would do so immediately if your practice is doing poorly.

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No not in advance. Only once baby arrived and leave starts does it protect you some while you are gone from losing job. And even then you would need to lawyer up to fight it. This exact thing happened to a consulting friend. He won but after significant lawyer involvement and cost

It doesn't offer protection, but could offer recourse. It's illegal to descriminate based on family planning, so you could file for wrongful dismissal if it happens.

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