[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What companies offer maternity/paternity lea...
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       Ask HN: What companies offer maternity/paternity leave immediately?
        
       I have observed that most companies don't offer their leave
       benefits until you have a year of service at the company. Also,
       companies don't really advertise the specifics of their policies
       publicly.  What are some companies that offer leave before you hit
       that year tenure for both maternity and paternity?  EDIT: I meant
       the US when asking this
        
       Author : jagtstronaut
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-12-19 21:11 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | speedgoose wrote:
       | In Norway, the parental leave is managed by the state so it's not
       | up to the company. The state will pay your salary, up to a limit.
       | Some companies will pay the difference.
       | 
       | https://www.tekna.no/en/salary-and-negotiations/employment-l...
       | 
       | Please note that you need to work during at least 6 of the last
       | 10 months before the parental leave, which isn't great. But you
       | get 49 weeks of parental leave, which is great.
        
         | playingalong wrote:
         | I'd risk a statement that the managed by state/law might be
         | true for most of the world (except US).
        
           | dvfjsdhgfv wrote:
           | I wonder why that is. Wouldn't it make sense for the whole
           | society to support the woman in this special period so that
           | she can stay with her newborn 4 or even maybe 5 months if she
           | desires instead of forcing her to go back after 12 weeks?
           | 12-week old baby is really small, they really need a mother.
           | 
           | Not to mention the fact that the current recommendation for
           | breastfeeding is 6 months - good luck doing it at work.
        
       | UncleEntity wrote:
       | Presumably they are hiring someone because they have an immediate
       | need and wouldn't be too happy if said new hire went on leave
       | leaving them in the exact same position with the added "benefit"
       | of having a new, non-productive person on the payroll.
        
         | tikhonj wrote:
         | Big companies--and even established mid-sized companies--have
         | the room and the motivation to hire people for long-term
         | considerations. At that scale, some low % chance that a new
         | hire will not do anything immediately is just part of the cost
         | of doing business. If you're big enough that you can amortize
         | costs like that, it's really not a big deal: if 1% of people
         | took a whole year to get started and needed to be paid 300k,
         | that's only $3k/employee, which is far, far lower than other
         | up-front costs involved in hiring. $3k/employee/year is not a
         | major cost for a benefit that people really value.
        
           | dvfjsdhgfv wrote:
           | Yeah, that's one of the reasons I prefer not to work for
           | smaller companies.
        
       | bananapub wrote:
       | at least edit your post to mention what country.
        
       | anon291 wrote:
       | Nvidia
        
       | CoolCold wrote:
       | Which country? I believe it's regulated by law of the country
        
       | weeznerps wrote:
       | Meta
        
         | jopolous wrote:
         | Can vouch, got paternity leave 4.5 months after starting
         | 
         | EDIT: this is in California
        
       | ahalbert2 wrote:
       | Wayfair
        
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