Trinity: I'm in Doncaster, how about you???
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Trinity: I'm in Doncaster, how about you???
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ooh, forgot to answer the paid maternity leave thing.
i wrote a paper on it at uni. it is absolutely critical, and total discrimination, that women are not entitled to paid maternity leave like most developed countries (especially europe). there are lots of arguments as to how it should be financed, either govt, employer, all the population or a mixture of any of the above.
our population rate of increase was woeful (hence the baby bonus) because many women just couldn't afford to do it.
we're charged with the most important job in the world - furthering the human race who will then drive the economy. it should not be a penalty against women because without us there will be no more men.
many countries have 14 weeks and this is what we should have.
as for lawyers, as one, you might be surprised to note that many of the bigger firms have paid maternity leave as a very attractive carrot for women. it is 100% against the law for an employer to ask a woman if or when she plans to have children, or what her family responsibilities are.
naturally the discrimination still happens, though unspoken. men definitely have an advantage in career through simply being male, and it is totally reasonable that women be compensated for the loss of time in career to have children.
boomba, i totally agree about small business, and perhaps it's where a sliding scale of contributions etc could be introduced. i don't want to get to heavy here...
someone talk about drool or something... eep
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