6 months' paid leave for mum?

[LOLMum]

My sister :faint: when she read this.


There has been no increase in head count for a few years now. She is doing 1.5 person work.

So if 2 mothers go on maternity leave either togather or one after another, she will go :siao: .

[Busymom]

Funz:

They keep talking about maternity. In this, I think the govt or whoever is proposing this is not truly hearing what people are asking for. With extended maternity, the main bulk of caring for the baby is again pushed to the mother. And like what Buds say, it does nothing for SAHM at all. What will help will be enforcing paternity leave. And not a measly 1 week or 2 week leave, bite the bullet and give 6-8weeks that can be taken anytime within 1 year of baby's birth.

:goodpost:

You said everything I want to say. It is so clear that they think bulk of the responsibility for caring for baby belongs to the mother and only the mother. :stupid: When are they going to realise that part of the problem in Asia is the expectation the society has of its mothers? Only when they start instituting changes that promote more sharing of responsibilities between husband and wife, will we see a meaningful reversal of the declining birth rate.

I say, start with that paternity leave, for goodness sake!

[Daddy D]

Yeah.... More paternity leave... Less ICT...

Everytime ICT will be logistic headache for the family... :faint:

[daisyt]

At a current 4 months, my company recept was encouraged to take 3 months and leave the 1 month as annual leave. Company not willing to pay for part time and get the despatch to take over during her absence.


How about the worry of after 6 months, return and the job is taken up by others?

[alng]

I am not sure how our pro-business government could enforce such a policy of 6 months’ paid maternity leave for mothers and another 6 months of unpaid leave.


A close friend who married a Japanese and currently staying/working in Japan told me that Japan provides one year of maternity leave, starting with full pay and then gradually change to partial pay. In the past, most mothers do not return to workplace after that one year of leave. Most Jap companies would recruit a replacement when the mothers go on leave. But in recent years, there is a trend of mothers returning back to workplace after one year of leave, leading to the companies in a position of having excess staff when the mothers return. Our culture here would be to get another employee to double or triple up the workload. Who would dare to go on 6 months or 12 months of leave?

[Oppsgal]

Might have some employers who will ask on the \"giving birth\" question during interviews. Will this leads to more difficulty in find jobs?

[peapot]

Even now with 2 month leave, already during my interview the employer already asked me. So very "kan bu kai"!! This person who asked me is a lady!!


But she absolutely has no problem asking the man in our company to quickly have children while to the woman she’s not happy about it.

[peapot]

6 months can be spread out to ease work load. All these should be negotiable to ensure minimum disruption to work flow. Its about give and take. There’s no one rule fits all. Base on the organisation structure, something can be worked out. But having said that, I don’t think it will happen.


Anyway, this doesn’t affect me at all since I have already closed production ages ago.

[laughingcat]

Aiyoh :slapshead: .....caring for a child is not only first 6 months leh.


Can consider increasing the childcare leave up to 12 years? Get the kindergarten curriculum regulated (en route to pre-primary preparation) and provide free pre-school public education? Free basic dental and medical for up to 6 years of age? :evil:

[alng]

Favourite interview questions:


If you are not married –> do you have plans to get married?
If you are married but without kids –> do you have plans to give birth? When?
And the next question will be —> what are your childcare arrangements?

Yes, I asked those questions in the past too.