I'm reading the parental leave policy and it seems miscarriage and stillbirth isn't covered. Are they seriously only willing to pay you if you are lucky enough to have a healthy birth?! Way to add insult to injury by not being eligible for pay during FMLA especially for those mothers who lose children at a late stage and have not only emotional but may also have the typical child birth physical trauma to recover from.
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bereavement leave and/or STD. By definition it's not parental leave
Some people are always looking for an axe to grind.
It would be "bereavement" leave, not "parental" leave. Come on, I know this place can be bad, but it's not THAT bad. Ge-z.
@ykt+1w1CQ3Eh How did you become misinformed that parental leave doesn't include the physical and mental recovery of the parent who gave birth to the baby?
They do give you Short Term Disability to recover from the birth. It is 6 weeks and is longer for C-sections with 8 weeks.
Short term disability leave and pay could likely be used as well, depending on the situation.
your manager can approve up to 2 weeks for bereavement and within the bereavement details on Teamworks they even list death of unborn child as eligible. between that and PTO you should be good for at least a month assuming your manager doesn't give you any grief.
Bereavement leave is the benefit, and it's better than it used to be. I remember when it was just 1 week off.
This bank wants you to suffer.
use your PTO and take bereavement
I would think some type of short term disability would get approved in a stillbirth and maybe you could claim that for mental reasons w a miscarriage. I agree though its a bit of a messed up principal.
There would be women getting four months off after abortions if that were permitted.
That’s what bereavement leave is for.
Oh come on, not trying to down play those traumatic events, but they can't compare. The purpose of parental leave is to care for your baby, not recover physically or mentally.