Give_Them_A_Break

Give Them A Break The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of a need for change in the government maternity leave policy. Maternity leave is the ¡§period of disability¡¨ that a woman takes to recovery, usually 4- to 6-weeks (6- to 8-weeks if there is a c-section). (Babycenter) The idea of referring to the time needed to recover as a ¡§period of disability¡¨ should give some idea of the importance of enough time. (Babycenter) Many companies have maternity leave policies that could give them up to a year off, with pay, and guarantee that they would be able to return when they are ready. Other companies allow a very minimal amount of time, no pay, but will be allowed to return because of the protection against discrimination. The problem with these different policies is that women take different amounts of time to heal and there are different situations with every woman. With a set amount of time, this would give all women an equal amount of time to recover and if they did not need all the time, they would be able to return whenever they were better while still receiving a percentage of their time, leave, maternity, policy, women, must, stone, companies, amount, pay, paid, new, problem, interest, idea, give, taken, set, percentage, off, change, birth, although, 233, united, take, stone¡¦s, step, states, return, policies, parents, employees, action, able