[Culturechat] Maternal Leave in CH

[Joan Herriges]

Not from personal experience, but my young colleagues advise that The Family
Leave Act allows for up to six months.  At University of California the
plans allows for 6 paid weeks of leave after a waiting period (at a
percentage of your regular pay), but you have to use up sick leave first (up
to 30 days).  After that you can use any remaining sick leave/vacation
leave, and you can take a leave of absence.

Before I retired (six years ago) the young moms took a bare minimum of
time-off at our very competitive engineering-construction company.  This was
out of concern for their career path.  My feeling is that this practice may
have softened somewhat as young moms have discovered it is impossible to be
supermoms.   What has changed dramatically in child care (at least in
California) is the time husbands now spend with their infants and toddlers.
We are sports fans and are amazed at the young fathers at games, sometimes
alone, or with their men friends.  There are family diaper changing rooms at
S.F.'s stadium.  Saw one young man at a Cal football game change his baby
girl (6 weeks old) without missing a play.  He  was organized, unfazed and
had the routine down pat!  Lots of cuddles and kisses during the game.
Joan.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vance Roy" <gigli.saw@dplanet.ch>
To: "culturechat" <culturechat@untours.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 3:52 AM
Subject: [Culturechat] Maternal Leave in CH


> When a working woman in CH becomes pregnant, she gets up to sixteen
> weeks of paid leave. The first eight weeks are at full pay. The second
> eight weeks vary. If she is going to return to work after the second
> eight weeks, she gets the percentage of full pay according to her
> percentage of work. A lot of CH workers have less than 100% work in a
> given job. A five day week is 100%. If she works only 40%, then she gets
> 40% of her salary , etc. If she does not plan to return to work, then
> she gets nothing the second eight week period.
>
> I wonder how that compares to the USA?
> --
> Vance Roy
> gigli.saw@dplanet.ch.
>
>
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