What is a normal maternity leave policy? I just learned ours and it doesn’t sound like 3 month maternity leave which I assumed was the gold standard?

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2-14 WEEKS MAT LEAVE?! What in the actual F?! You barely have time to heal and get your brain back. God I never understood American healthcare, everything is so backasswards.

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Get this...a friend of mine is a partner at a law firm, working in the medical field and she just returned from her 6 week leave! It’s really sad. With my first I got 6 months and with my current pregnancy I’ll get 4 months. I’m one of the lucky ones and really wish we could start talking about this more and banding together to fight for an acceptable standard for all.

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You’d be surprised at how little standards, much less gold, there are around mat leave. At a national level, FMLA protects full-time employees who have been at their job for at least a full year (even then, if your job has less than 50 employees, it doesn’t qualify) for a period of 12 unpaid weeks. Some states (such as CA) provide short term disability (up to 6 weeks for vaginal delivery, up to 8 weeks for a C-section). So if you live in CA and just found out that your job pays 1 week maternity, then if you only want to take paid time off, that means 7 weeks or 9 weeks total off. You can still take up to 12 and technically they would have to hold your job, but you wouldn’t be collecting any money during that time.

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Our policy is:
- 6 weeks of short term disability at 100% pay (8 for a c section)
- 6 weeks of parental leave at 100% pay

So a mom who has a c section will get 14 weeks. Adoptive parents or non-birthing parents will get 6. You can supplement with vacation time with manager approval.

This seems pretty agency-standard from what I’ve seen elsewhere.

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I max’d out every avenue possible and ended up with a total of three months. I combined every vacation day and the company let me pull a week forward so that I could get the time with baby instead of a week later in the year. I hadn’t even been with the company 6 months when I went into labor 5 weeks early. They were great and worked with me to be sure I got a solid amount of time off. I’d ask now and work out a plan.
(And to everyone else that mentioned it... the convo should be happening and the policies should change. It’s horrifying what we need to go through and give up to spend 3 months with our baby. #change2020)

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Ours I learned was:
1. One wk paid maternity leave
2. 6-8 wks short term disability depending on how you give birth
3. Vacation + sick days if you need more
Plus during this time you’re still paying for insurance even if not getting paid a full salary.

What’s a normal policy? Is this it?

That actually sounds more like the “normal” in our industry because it’s garbage. That’s what it is at most Publicis agencies

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