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Just had a baby. Had the privilege of using 5 days of PTO for my parental leave. Partner gets like 4 months, thankfully.
It's sad there's such a disparity between leave amounts at different employers in the USA. It really should be standardized.
I'm from Australia, where it's mandated to get four weeks (20 days) of PTO per year, 20 weeks of paid parental leave, at least a year of unpaid parental leave, and an extra 8 weeks of PTO every 7 years ("long service leave").
I'm living in the USA now, and am fortunate that my employer offers 21 days PTO per year. I also have unlimited sick leave, which is a strange phrase to hear as an Aussie (why would sick days be limited??)
Is the extra 8 weeks of long service PTO independent of the position you hold at a company?
Yeah, it's standard for everyone. Even people working part time get it, pro-rated. For example, if you work 50% of the hours compared to a full-time position, you accrue 50% of the long service leave.
That's pretty cool. Wish Canada would follow a similar mandate.
Here it's federally mandated 10 days of PTO + 8-10 days of holidays depending on province (xmas etc). Above this it's 3 days of paid sick days.
In practice a lot of companies offer 15 days and an extra 5 days per five years of tenure. However this is not federally or provincially mandated and is not something that is transferable if you change companies.
So this is one of those "even things that end up benefitting men is Feminism" things.
Men having no paternity leave, but women having it, might sound like it's better for women. But instead it just makes them more likely to leave the workforce when their maternity leave runs out. Giving men an equivalent (minus medical recovery) amount of leave to be used over the first year makes it so both parents can take turns, get the child to a reasonable point of being able to be put in childcare, and allows both to return to work (if desired). And studies have shown the vast, vast majority of the pay difference between men and women is due to separating from the workforce for years after pregnancy (and subsequent pregnancies).
Paternity Leave is part of Feminism.