Paid maternity leave, no way
Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Making News.We are paid to have them, now we want to be paid for the privilledge of looking after our own children while someone else does our work for us, then when we decide to go back to work they get the flick. Our employer is paying 2 people to do one job, no wonder everything cost’s more. We choose to have them, if we can not afford to stop work because we live above our means we shouldn’t have them in the first place. Stop wanting everthing without working for it and live within your means. No way should any one have a pay cut to provide maternity leave, we pay enough TAXES now. If couples have kids they should be able to live on one wage.
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It’s a tough issue, but either way if we do end up having paid maternity leave, it shouldn’t be “maternity” leave, that’s sexist, it should be “parental” leave, that way if the woman is the main earner in the household, she can go back to work while the man looks after the kids.
employers shouldn’t have to pay the costs of parental leave, it should be paid by the state like it is in most developed countries. That means that the costs are spread more evenly through the business sector. It also means women are less likely to be discriminated against as employees. It also mean women who work in part time jobs or a self-employed ie most working women also have access to the scheme.
Society reaps enormous benefits from couples having children, I believe it is only fair that society chips in a comparatively small amount for what is an extremely expensive exercise.
One daughter got 12 weeks maternity leave, the other two weeks, their mother however got nil.
What my generation had though was a non existent credit card, second hand furniture, wash your own nappies, home prepared foods. No car, walked everywhere, no formula, no disposables, no frills whatsoever. No expensive car seats explicitly for children. Babies thrived, but with less of everything except love.
I believe if the maternity leave pay is to become a reality it should be funded by the taxpayers billion dollars surplus earned with the GST. The Government is swimming in money, our money - let’s use that for a future generation because modern thinking doesn’t promote “going without” in a consumer driven society. If business continues then people will have jobs to return to eventually whatever their choices in the meantime.