Omg I totally understand I work at taco bell! Its also a franchise nd we r aloud to take 3 months off for maternity leave buy no pay as well so ya it does suck I've decided I need to keep working until 37 weeks:(
My work arent payin me but in the uk if ur work doesnt pay u the government pays u so am gettin 60 quid a week from them for 26 weeks but thats it, better than nothin
I live in St.Paul, MN and my employer doesn't pay anything for maternity leave. Its actually more common then you'd think. I have to use whatever vacation/sick time I have saved.
They dont offer anything called Short Term Disability? I used to work fast food and that was a benefit I had to sign up for through work. That was what I used when I was pregnant with my last two.
I now work for a gas station though and talk about getting screwed - they dropped all of my benefits INCLUDING insurance back in November last year because my boss unexpected dropped me from full time to part time. So yeah... I feel your pain.
Thanks ladies I feel a little better to know I'm not the only one. I'm not sure about short term disability I think it may be included in fmla?? I will definitely ask someone in HR. Thanks :) sorry to hear your boss did that to you, have you tried to apply for any assitance? I have medical assitance and I don't know what I would do without it. Its insane imo that the u.s. doesn't offer anything similar to the uk for maternity leave...
You apply for disability when you leave for Maternity. I believe they pay you for 6-8 weeks depending on if you have a C-section or not.