Quote: (12-17-2016 03:01 PM)david.garrett84 Wrote:
Where the fuck can I start with this lunacy? Bear in mind that in Australia the maternity leave on offer, government-funded, is six months of your salary if your salary is up to $75,000 per year. Something like that.
Oh, it gets better, Mr Garrett. Because you haven't yet explored the wonderful world of 'double dipping'.
You see, the maternity leave on offer, government-funded, is often not the only maternity leave a woman has available. The 6 months at half salary is just the government's handout.
Most large employers -- in particular, State government ones -- have their own paid maternity leave schemes as well. Depending on the employer you can pull another 14 weeks
at your ordinary salary in paid parental leave.
In order to access both, you simply have to be careful about precisely what dates you choose to access these forms of leave. You don't necessarily have to take paid parental leave right away. You can do it within 1 year of having your kid ... let's say, 6 months after your government-funded maternity leave runs out. I have seen cadres of female employees sit around for literally 6 hours working out precisely when to dip in and out of the different schemes to afford them maximum benefit for not working.
This is what they call "double dipping", and because it's post-Wall, post-30 mothers who use it, all the government's murmuring about doing something about it isn't going to come to jack shit. Ways will be set up to get around it.
Quote: (12-17-2016 03:49 PM)LikeABaller Wrote:
You guys are worried about the declining fertility rates
When the employers offer affirmative action to increase it then you're against it
High fertility rates without meaningful raising of those kids by two parents doesn't mean jack shit. Example A: what's become of the black community in America.
This is not affirmative action. It is encouraging women
not to stay at home and raise their kids for the first, vital, formative years of their lives. Now let's ask ourselves something else: why stop at five years?
Because that's roughly around when the kid first starts going to school. Also known as, when life gets a shitload more expensive even if you're putting your kids into a government school. All of a sudden your fucking pay rate -- which you have spent up to and beyond -- drops by ten grand. At that point you are tied to the employer's hamster wheel because where are you going to go that offers ten grand more than you earn at the moment, especially after five years doing a half-arsed job while you battle to keep your kids going?
Also, I would be very interested in seeing where this asshole's investments are. The only bodies that stand to gain out of this are early childhood centres, the sort of miserable disinfectant-smelling prisons that little babies are tossed into at four months of age while their idiot mothers go back to chasing the almighty dollar.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm