MATERNITY LEAVE POLICY

venture12

Our company is reveiwing our current maternity policy, and I wanted to see if any could provide feeback of their company's current policy re: duration/eligibilty of time off, amount paid, FMLA). Any feedback would be most helpful.

Don D

Pregnancy cannot by law be treated any less favorably than any other illness/disability, nor should it be treated any more favorably or differently if you want to be non-discriminatory and perhaps avoid charges of discrimination. I don't know of a company anywhere, any longer that has a separate 'maternity/pregnancy policy'.

HRsage

Don, you forgot to mention your disclaimer for state regs. x;-)

Venture, check your state regs for your policy also. CA has Pregnancy Disabily Leave (PDL) which gives 4 months of leave time that can run concurrent with FMLA. Perhaps, possibly, maybe, The People's Republic of MA has something similar.

psrcello

Don D -

Your response was right on - I can't imagine a "maternity leave" policy any more, thought those were all abolished back in 1978! I remember the date very well - I was two weeks away from going back to work at the end of my maternity leave when President Carter signed the PDA.

Of course, I also don't work in one of those "people's republic" states that has the interesting, employee-friendly laws!

Mary Poppins

Our organization allows one week of paid PARENTAL leave after the birth of a child. This leave can be taken by the father or the mother.


A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Mary Poppins

dbutton111

Agree with the others, don't know of anyone with a specific maternity policy any longer.

We are a multi-state group and handle the state-by-state differences with a paragraph in our policies. In our disability policy we state what our policy is and that if a state's disability policy supercedes this we follow the state. Same with our FMLA policy - we state what our policy is but also that if a state's supercedes ours we follow the state.