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EU Maternity Plan Protects Women
The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues | October 7th 2008 by Fred Stopsky
The European Union is advocating improved protection for women who must quit work in order to have a child. The goal is assisting people to balance professional and personal lives in a manner that goals of both can be attained. The new legislation wo read more
Paid Maternity Leave In Australia
Planning With Kids | October 2nd 2008 by PlanningQueen
Image by hugrakka Australia is one of only two developed countries without paid maternity leave. The Rudd Government says that they will change this status and will legislate some form of compulsory paid parental leave. We received our first inklin read more
Bite the bullet
blue milk | September 30th 2008 by blue milk
“… what I am saying to you loud and clear today is that this Australian Government believes the time has come to bite the bullet on this and we intend to do so..” I like the sound of this phrase from the Prime Minister, I like t read more
Australians Fighting Over Maternity Leave
Skor Career | September 29th 2008
The issue of maternity leave for working women in Australia has cropped up again after a proposal was raised to issue a 14-week paid maternity leave for mothers. This new scheme, once implemented, will benefit more than 300,000 women currently making read more
CHILD CARE LEAVE TWO YAER,MATERNITY LEAVE EXTENDED:SIXTH PAY COMM…
SIMPLE TAX INDIA | September 16th 2008 by RAJAN GUPTA
A bonanza for women employee for sixth pay commission or for we can say for society as the women are the base of our society.This notification is effective from 01.09.2008.In this notification two benefit has given Maternity leave has been extended read more
Sarah Palin: A friend of the American mom?
Feminist Mom in Montreal: Experiments in Feminist Parenting | August 30th 2008 by Saraline Grenier
As I'm sure the entire world knows by now, John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his vice-presidential running mate yesterday. Palin is the governor of Alaska, married with five children, and presents an image of a strong woman. There has been speculat read more
Guest Post: Reflections on ‘mother work’ by a stay-at-home mo…
blue milk | August 28th 2008 by blue milk
Guest post: As many of you probably know blue milk is written by a ‘working mother’. I work part-time outside the home and being a part-timer I feel like I can relate to some of the experiences of stay-at-home mothers (SAHMs) but I̵ read more
Mother guilt as a luxury item
blue milk | August 26th 2008 by blue milk
Where are all the black mother bloggers? Or any mother bloggers apart from the white ones? Not on the big mother blogging sites, as Veronica I. Arreola points out here in a piece for Bitch magazine. I don’t read sites like Alpha Mom so I̵ read more
Mama PhD: Review
blue milk | August 18th 2008 by blue milk
Mama PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life is edited by Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant and is now available at Amazon. The book is also supported by a website and a blog. This is a review written by blue milk for MotherTalk. Thi read more
Maternity leave in the U.S. Let's discuss.
Working Moms Against Guilt | August 14th 2008
I was so happy to hear recently that my friend Carrie is pregnant with her third child. Carrie is a working mom who has worked both part-time and full-time. But about a year ago she accepted a new full-time position with a bank. So when she told me h read more
I have nothing to say…
The Odd Blog | August 11th 2008 by Mike
… except that I am working still on my story. It’s a new genre for me - a Western. Yeah, a Western. I’ve wanted to do something in that vein for a long time, and now I can. That’s more or less it. My old manager is coming b read more
Over and out
inmedialog | July 31st 2008 by inmedia PR
Today is my last day of work prior to going on maternity leave. In Canada, we’re incredibly blessed that we have the option of taking one year off to be with our new arrivals, so I’m taking advantage and plan to be off until mid-August 20 read more
Israeli Salary and Labor Law Q&A with Moshe Egel-Tal
JobMob - All Together Now to get jobs in Israel and the worl… | July 27th 2008 by Jacob Share
The questions cover ageism, maternity leave, severance pay and overtime for part-timers. The answers are the result of followups to the JobMob Pro Chat with Israeli Payroll Specialist Moshe Egel-Tal. read more
Top 10 Things I Just Don’t Understand
Mama Nuggle | July 24th 2008 by Lori
I like to think that I am a relatively smart woman. The grades listed on my formal education transcripts say that I am. *However* there are some things in life I just don’t get. Here is a list… if you can explain to me why these things oc read more
I like to think of my maternity leave as The Year I Programmed So…
blue milk | July 17th 2008 by blue milk
The paid maternity leave debate is dominated by labour supply considerations - that is, parents returning to the workforce as quickly and reliably as possible. What we hear very little of in this debate is how worthwhile maternity leave (or parenta read more
UK Human Rights Chief: Kid-Shmid. Paid Maternity Leave Is Bad For…
Down With Everybody | July 14th 2008
[NDTV] Giving women a year’s maternity leave after the birth of every child is harming their careers, a gender watchdog says. Employers are having second thoughts in employing women or short-listing them for promotions because of the one-year read more
Sex Ed for 4 Year Olds & 'Senior' Reproduction
Sexualité | July 7th 2008 by Anastasia
Every nation has quirky proposals offered by paranoid people. The latest group of paranoid people ought to know better, but every country has its loonies. Don't get me started on Australia because I'll be here all day: everything from our governments read more
Maternity Leave Right of Employees
Skor Career | July 7th 2008
A female employee is entitled for maternity leave with a minimum eligibility period of 60 consecutive days. As a condition, she must have been employed in the company for at least 4 months before the confinement, and has worked for 90 days (or more) read more
Can I move overseas?
It's a woman's world | June 1st 2008 by Petula Wright
I've been reading a lot of articles lately that talk about how much better work conditions are for working mothers in other countries. This is what I learned from Redbook magazine yesterday:Top 3 best places for working momsBulgaria - Moms get 45 day read more
Etsy shop on Maternity Leave
Five Dot Design | March 13th 2008 by fivedotdesign
so i bit the bullet and closed up shop a few weeks early. many people around the office have commented on how miserable i look, so i took that as a sign to just relax. i wasn't anticipating any sales and, in all honesty, i haven' wanted to do anythin read more
Lazy, lazy, lazy
lifepassedby | March 10th 2008 by kasper
I’m such a slack. I have no idea where my weekend went. I guess between watching movies and working on my new layout all the time just got sucked away. I really want to get this new layout finished up, but it seems that I keep changing my mind read more
Work/life balance - one equation that doesn’t add up…
Mom2Mom Lounge | March 5th 2008 by Barbara
While it may have been awhile since I’ve blogged, it’s with good reason. Now that maternity leave is months behind me, I find myself living a whole new reality. Like the majority of moms out there, I’m back at work juggling babies read more
Imagine
lifepassedby | February 29th 2008 by kasper
Tuesday was baby D’s last baby sign language class. It was kind of sad since he has been around the same babies for 2 months and won’t see them anymore, but maybe if I put him in the next session we’ll see some of them again. Hubby read more
America still behind developed countries on maternity leave laws
Thoughts from Training Time | February 21st 2008 by Lindsay
If you live in America and are planning to have a baby, prepare your wallet.The recent changes in the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) have caused some stir among critics who claim that further expanding this program of unpaid family leave will endang read more
Got a case of the Mondays
Yoga Mama | February 18th 2008 by Yoga Mama
Back to Monday. Oh Monday, why do we hate you so? Why are you the least favorite day of the week for most "regularly scheduled" workers? Oh why Monday do you annoy us so?I tried to use reverse psychology on myself this morning by putting "YAY Monday" read more
Brazen Careerist Writes About PPD & Working Women
Postpartum Progress | February 15th 2008
This is a great post from Penelope Trunk of the Brazen Careerist blog. She writes about experiencing PPD while working, and makes suggestions on what women should know about PPD if they're the breadwinner in the family. She bravely shares... read more
I see dead people
lifepassedby | January 31st 2008 by kasper
Something has gotten into baby D since yesterday. He’s just not himself. Who knows, maybe he’s finally getting a tooth. First of all this is generally a happy kid. He really doesn’t cry unless there is a real reason. So yesterday I read more
Woman Fired For Extending Maternity Leave Due to PPD?
Postpartum Progress | January 24th 2008
Here's an interesting story from United Press International about a woman allegedly being fired for extending her maternity leave due to postpartum depression. I hope it's not true. And may I take this opportunity to give a special shout out... read more
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