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Apple Announces Expanded Employee Benefits for New Parents
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This is so frustrating to hear. It’s like the working class people who vote for Republicans because they want lower taxes just in case they become rich some day. 99% of these people will not start their own business or become millionaires but they vote against their own current interests just in case.
By the way, all of these regulations in the US like FMLA or the Affordable Care Act have carve outs for small businesses that exempt them from these types of healthcare or leave mandates so they don’t even effect these imaginary future entrepreneurs.
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I agree. I‘m one of the lucky few that gets a substantial amount of time off at a company where no one judges you for using it. I get 7 and a half weeks off each year and if coworkers hear you’re not going to use all your time they give you **** about it.
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ACA specifically taxes self-employed people and people not insured through the company more. Makes it harder to own or work for a small business.
The thing about US federal (and sometimes state) taxes is they're really high for middle class too. People aren't worried about becoming rich and getting taxed for it. They're worried about it only making sense to be lower class and take the benefits. And the social benefits suck anyway; social security dwarfs all other federal spending, and not much comes out of it. Idk why, seems like some corps are milking it. Europe seems to be better at spending govt money, but I don't prefer their way, nor was the US ever set up for such a system.
If Americans wanted more time off, they'd have it. I want it at least. I don't want the government mandating it.
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My country offers 12 months of paid paternity leave. The leave could also be flexible, which might give mom 9 months and dad 3 months, for example, or whatever the couple decides on.
16 weeks seems like very little. Putting kids in daycare after 16 weeks is completely pre-mature and crazy. They aren't ready for it at all. It is crucial for the children to be around their mom primarily for the first 12 months. This is very, very, very well known facts and common sense.
16 weeks seems like very little. Putting kids in daycare after 16 weeks is completely pre-mature and crazy. They aren't ready for it at all. It is crucial for the children to be around their mom primarily for the first 12 months. This is very, very, very well known facts and common sense.
Yah, in Canada, parents can take up to 40 weeks of paid parental leave. Drastic difference, eh?
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Can't argue with that. Paid leave is a brutal burden on companies. Heck, paying someone for a stat holiday... 8 hours of pay for doing NOTHING is mind-boggling. Employers are truly burdened with all the costs they must pay for nothing in return.
You mean the countries with failing economies right now or the ones who are just plain lazy asses?
I'm sorry, but I take the idea of America being uncivilized as an insult, but I guess you have nothing better to do not working but to kick America around since we're fully employed unlike Europe and most other places.
In addition, Apple's new spaceship campus allows employees to easily jump on the tail of the comet with full benefits should they decide to say F this world!
(Could no other picture be found than the spaceship one? I mean, it's ripe for jokes)
If single and childless people don’t like the policy, then they can quit and move to another company. Why are they being taken advantage when they agree to work for a company that provides benefits for parents?
You should go work for a Chinese company if you like working so much.
You know what's great is Americans don't care about mischaracterizations like this if they come from outside. Generally we see Europe as being stuck in the distant past (most of it still has restricted speech, wtf) with a weak economy, and worse so for other continents, so they don't get to talk. The US is well known for valuing families and having the means to accomplish that without an overbearing government.
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Yup.
In the UK, the company I work for offer 16 weeks over the period of 12 months to the non-birth parent.
My old employer was the statutory 2 weeks. Which is terrible.
If the company handles unpaid time off well, seems like the only difference is pay. 4 weeks of pay shouldn't matter that much if a 4 week grace period is as inconsequential as you make it sound, which I agree it is. So making the parent take unpaid time off seems like the least discriminatory, presumptuous, etc way to handle this. As hard as it is to sympathize with people who don't want kids. Also, employers may discriminate against those they're forced to effectively give more paid vacation to.
Disclaimer, not a parent cause too young. Will be some day if all goes the way I expect.
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Why should they allow vacation, because Americans won't work for a place that makes them work all year round. The way vacation and benefits are structured don't really matter; it's all $-per-time in the end, and that's the only way my employer sees it. That's fine, it's my job to care about my life, not the company's.
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I went back to work after about 3or four days for all four of my kids because I needed to get the heck out of that house.
Getting to be just like the government. Take money from the shareholders and give unnecessary things to everyone.
Companies that can offer this it is great...I HATE it as a forced government policy.
Has anyone ever asked the wives if they WANT their husbands home for that long?
Has anyone ever asked the wives if they WANT their husbands home for that long?
European countries are also trying to fend off ethnic demographic collapse. They also give you free money just for having kids because few are.
Or my company is small, our margins are thin and heavily regulated, and we don’t have the resources to do what you propose. It’s amazing how quickly people revert to someone either hates or my company doesn’t care, or tries to find heroes or villains in these trade offs. Maybe a giant company like Apple with 37% margins can do things other companies can’t (and like I said- good for them). Too little imagination/too little experience leads people to post so much silliness.
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Well if you are young just sit back and wait. Demography is a pretty robust science and earth max population should be reached in your lifetime and will be declining for the rest of your life so rejoice!
Working excess hours is counterproductive, and can't understand why companies in the u.s get as little as 5 days vacation per year. Being at work doesn't mean more productivity, it often means less. Burned out employees are not productive. People need time out of work to rest / enjoy life. "A happy employee is a productive employee", and that really is the truth.
Many developed countries are actually *under* populated. Ever heard of the demographic time bomb? It's quite real.