Paid Maternity Leave

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Paid Maternity Leave
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Institution’s Name Maternity leave is the period that a new mother takes off from work to take care of her newborn baby. Most of the companies in the United States have the same plans for male to allow them take paternity leave. Normally Maternity leave is often created from a number of benefits such as vacation, sick leave; personal days, short-term disability, holiday time, as well as family leave time. The objective of this paper is to compare how paid maternity/paternity leave is the United States differ from those in the European nations. The comparison will look at European countries while narrowing the comparison to developed Europeans nations such as German, France, Spain, Ireland, United …show more content…

In most cases, most American families take loans to cater for the newborn baby or turn to public assistance. Sweden has become one of most attractive working destination for many Americans who would like to procreate. In Sweden, parents are usually guaranteed paid maternity/paternity leave of 480 days per child, which they can take anytime until the kids attained 8 years. Sweden also allocate 60 days of this period to the fathers of the new born upon which they are guaranteed at least 80% of their salaries. In the United States the situations is different both parents are not guaranteed to payment during maternity/paternity …show more content…

In addition, European countries such as Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, and Romania all guarantee 126 days full paid maternity leave. Portugal offer 120 to 150 days parental leave and guarantee 100% pay for shorter leave duration and 80% pay for longer leave duration. For the countries of Estonia and Russia, they provide 140 days full maternity leave for mothers while in Poland it is 20 weeks with full

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