Comments on: Cat’s in the Cradle http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/87 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:12:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ By: Dan http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/87#comment-89 Dan Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:36:00 +0000 http://allthatcomeswithit.com/?p=87#comment-89 Paul - feel the power of the mighty Wikipedia <a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_in_the_cradle" rel="nofollow">Cat's in the Cradle</A> Paul - feel the power of the mighty Wikipedia

Cat’s in the Cradle

]]> By: Paul Sutcliffe http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/87#comment-88 Paul Sutcliffe Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:46:00 +0000 http://allthatcomeswithit.com/?p=87#comment-88 Then first thing I thought of when I started reading this post: The cat's in the cradle. I seem to remember Ugly Kid Joe doing a version but not sure who the original was... Then first thing I thought of when I started reading this post: The cat’s in the cradle. I seem to remember Ugly Kid Joe doing a version but not sure who the original was…

]]> By: Kerry http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/87#comment-87 Kerry Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:37:00 +0000 http://allthatcomeswithit.com/?p=87#comment-87 Without getting too technical about it, you can have up to 1 year's maternity leave depending on how long you have worked for your current employer. Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) gives you just over £100 per week for 26 weeks, and then an option to stay off for a further 6 months unpaid. A lot of companies enhance these benefits to so many weeks at full pay, which helps. They are planning to extend the number of weeks of statutory pay, but from what I've read, the impression is that this won't enable most people to stay off work any longer unless they could already afford to. They are also talking about parents being able to cash in the maternity leave between them, i.e. I take 6 months of SMP and Dan can have the other 3 months which I think is interesting. Here endeth the lesson - that's what you get for asking an HR professional about maternity leave! Without getting too technical about it, you can have up to 1 year’s maternity leave depending on how long you have worked for your current employer. Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) gives you just over £100 per week for 26 weeks, and then an option to stay off for a further 6 months unpaid. A lot of companies enhance these benefits to so many weeks at full pay, which helps.

They are planning to extend the number of weeks of statutory pay, but from what I’ve read, the impression is that this won’t enable most people to stay off work any longer unless they could already afford to.

They are also talking about parents being able to cash in the maternity leave between them, i.e. I take 6 months of SMP and Dan can have the other 3 months which I think is interesting.

Here endeth the lesson - that’s what you get for asking an HR professional about maternity leave!

]]> By: Dan http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/87#comment-86 Dan Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:03:00 +0000 http://allthatcomeswithit.com/?p=87#comment-86 We're really lucky, we both work in public sector jobs so our various benefits are pretty good. I'll wait until Kerry comes home rather than try and have a guess what the rules are. I'm pretty sure Kerry gets 6 months paid maternity, and I get two weeks paid paternity. Kerry has the option of having a further six months unpaid. I think, as I say I'll have to run it by the expert on her return. We’re really lucky, we both work in public sector jobs so our various benefits are pretty good. I’ll wait until Kerry comes home rather than try and have a guess what the rules are.

I’m pretty sure Kerry gets 6 months paid maternity, and I get two weeks paid paternity. Kerry has the option of having a further six months unpaid.

I think, as I say I’ll have to run it by the expert on her return.

]]> By: Deb http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/87#comment-85 Deb Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:23:00 +0000 http://allthatcomeswithit.com/?p=87#comment-85 I think the U.S. is so backwards when it comes to maternity leave (and paternity leave, for that matter). It's only been since 1993 that we've had a law that guarantees most people up to 12 weeks off after the birth of a child. And this is unpaid time, so you can have the time off if you can afford it, and your job is guaranteed to be waiting for you. I took 12 weeks off when Allie was born and 10 weeks off when Julia was born. I had c-sections, so for most of the first 8 weeks off, you're not feeling too grand. And then you take them to daycare and cry all the way to work. It gets easier, but the whole thing is rather barbaric. I think the U.S. is so backwards when it comes to maternity leave (and paternity leave, for that matter). It’s only been since 1993 that we’ve had a law that guarantees most people up to 12 weeks off after the birth of a child.

And this is unpaid time, so you can have the time off if you can afford it, and your job is guaranteed to be waiting for you.

I took 12 weeks off when Allie was born and 10 weeks off when Julia was born. I had c-sections, so for most of the first 8 weeks off, you’re not feeling too grand. And then you take them to daycare and cry all the way to work. It gets easier, but the whole thing is rather barbaric.

]]> By: Dan http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/87#comment-84 Dan Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:02:00 +0000 http://allthatcomeswithit.com/?p=87#comment-84 It’s slightly ironic that I was nearly late picking Amy up from nursery because I was writing this blog entry. It’s slightly ironic that I was nearly late picking Amy up from nursery because I was writing this blog entry.

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