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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

Shithole country.

Best advice I can give you. Start slacking at work. Not enough to get in trouble or fired. Just a little bit here and there and expand on it when you can at intervals.. That's what I started doing and it makes my life just a little bit better. Why work your fingers to the bone for a shithole country that can't even give us the things other 1st world countries have? We're being taken advantage of. So start taking some advantage back.

[-] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

I feel like when I started slacking my boss became happier with my performance. Maybe I'm just happier and taking time to realize it now, but I got a better bonus for last year than the year before and I really didn't do all that much last year.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

One does wonder why AmeriKan youth decide to open fire instead of finding a reasonable solution. US labor laws and maternity leave are shit in the supposed wealthiest country in the world.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Who down voted this? People who want women working no matter what? Maybe they will allow an extra hour at lunch to go have the babay, as long as the hour is docked from the paycheck?

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

If you’re not churning out widgets for your employer with an aching vagina and handing your newborn over to someone else to care for, what good are you? Your’e an expense and a liability unless you’re making someone above you richer. All this country wants is to monetize you until you’re not worth it, then hope you die quick.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

I think you mean government mandated paid maternity leave. In America, companies themselves decide the leave they want to give their employees.

Is it right? No. But the framing is disingenuous and implies no one in the US EVER gets maternity leave EVER, and that’s not true.

[-] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

Disagree. It's clearly gov mandated leave, companies can do whatever they want above the minimum in any country.

[-] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 3 points 20 hours ago

Interesting, I thought Hungary had more. You get paid until the end of the third year, but in the last it's minimal, people usually return after 2. Maybe the source is different

[-] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

Australia is 22 weeks at minimum wage by the government. Most businesses also offer an additional 12 weeks at full wage. You can take up to a year off without your employer being able to take issue.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

In Lithuania, it's 72 days before scheduled birth and 56 days after, fully paid on day of entering maternal leave.

After that, one of the parents can go into long-term maternal leave of 18 or 24 months, at around 70% of pay.

In addition to that, the spouse who isn't taking that vacation can have 2 months off until the child turns 3.

[-] Mad_Punda@feddit.org 4 points 19 hours ago

”vacation“

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago

Japan has it (and, more recently, paternity leave), but using it can be harder. Old companies try to pull all kinds of BS to deny it or change the woman's job or such. It's getting better and enforcement is cracking down but, as with all things here, it moves slowly.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 45 points 1 day ago

being successful in the us means having a job that gives you benefits equivalent to the minimum required by law in the average european country.

[-] termaxima@programming.dev 79 points 2 days ago

Who TF is the troll researcher who made a color for 4 weeks or less that doesn’t even appear on the map 😂

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 63 points 2 days ago

Took me a bit but there's a tiny little dot on south of Africa, Eswatini.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 13 points 2 days ago

I'm not 100% sure but I think PNG might be light orange too?

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

PNG PNG files are harder to read when served as WebP.

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[-] termaxima@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

It’s too small to tell which nuance of orange it is, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt for now…

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[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Right, north Korea has paid maternity leave; I TOTALLY believe that. (I don't actually fucking believe that)

[-] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 23 hours ago

Commie russia had paid mothers leave. It was a total cesspit and awful place to live but even they had paid mothers leave.

[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

That much I can believe but not north Korea.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

But they want to increase birth rates?

What a pack of fucking idiots.

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That was exactly my thought. Guess they’re to busy stoking fear about illegal immigrants rather than fix real problems.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Even if they were competent enough to understand what they need to do to increase the birth rate, their actual answer would be "FEMALES shouldn't have jobs to begin with".

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

Illegal immigrants from countries with more guaranteed paid maternity leave than the US has!

(Yes this is an extremely 1-dimensional lens to look at these extremely complex socioeconomic and geopolitical issues through. What's not complex is that child birth is a biological process not compatible with the factory oriented 8 hours a day/5 days a week schedule that we're now stuck on)

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

WTF Papua New Guinea?! Get with the 21st Century.

[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In the US, federal law allows women 3 months off after childbirth, after which infants are shipped to daycare.

This is unpaid leave that allows you to keep your benefits. Some states augment that with pay and some "benevolent" corporations will offer more pay or time.

State supported paternity leave does not exist.

Research shows that isolating men from children leads to poor modulation of testosterone resulting in more aggression and less empathy.

Research also shows that lack of mother child bonding in early development creates men like JD Vance.

Policy shapes biology which shapes culture which shapes policy. A vicious cycle that we can only break once we recognize it.

[-] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago

California has PFL (paid family leave) which also applies to fathers. I don't know if there are more states with similar programs, but CA at least covers a lot of people.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I'm going to give thread op the benefit of the doubt and assume "state supported" was supposed to mean "federally supported".

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Colorado has 12 weeks paid to both. But, once again someone doesn’t understand state sovereignty in the US and just clumps a together as one unit. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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[-] prole 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Policy shapes biology which shapes culture which shapes policy. A vicious cycle that we can only break once we recognize it.

It's even more difficult when you have people who are purposely exploiting that cycle for nefarious reasons.

[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

We have a loophole for maternity leave in America

If you're rich you can have the rest of your life off

Rules only apply to the poors

[-] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

Same loophole exists elsewhere too

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[-] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago

This map isn’t worth a discussion. I seriously doubt that countries such as Sudan, Bangladesh, and Cambodia have a paid paternity leave. If so, it isn’t worth the paper it’s written upon. In those countries the government shit on worker rights.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This seems to be correct. Sudan, surprisingly does offer paid leave however other countries in Africa, like Zambia, do not offer paid but do offer unpaid (like the US on a Federal level). Map is, indeed, worthless.

https://africa-hr.com/blog/guide-to-parental-leave-in-africa/

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[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

that can't be right ? anyone from the US care to confirm this ? even for them it sounds absurd

[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is no federal law guaranteeing maternity leave in the USA. We have a law that you have to provide ... I want to say 12? ... Weeks unpaid leave for new mothers but that's pretty much it. They may be able to claim short term disability for some time they're out of work which is half your income not all of it.

Some individual states may have protections in their laws but it's certainly not the norm. It really comes down to the company you work for. I work for a nice company. They gave me 10 weeks paid leave for parental leave, which is even more rare here for any kind of paternity leave (I'm a dude).

It's pretty sad honestly.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Thanks for the additional info, I am bit shocked tbf. Good that your company seems decent in that regard

[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

As a person who lives in the USA even I am shocked constantly at how fucked up things really are here.

Then you have people who rejoice that we have the "freedom" for companies to fuck you and they bend over to take it with a smile. They're the worst. Lumpenproletariat

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

I learned a word ! cheers

[-] padook@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago

In NY any private company with more than 100 employees is required to provide 12 weeks of protected time off to mothers,fathers and adoptive parents. The state collects an extra paid leave tax from our payroll that pays around 70% of your salary while youre out. You have 1 calendar year from birth/adoption to use the leave

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago

Nice ! what about companies with fewer than 100 employees, do you have any idea ?

[-] padook@feddit.nl 2 points 12 hours ago

As far as I know there is no requirement for them. I assume based on the hardship to absorb the workload

[-] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

It's by federal/national level. Most states have some form of it. You can surely guess which ones don't.

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