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Maternity Leave.
Ok, so I know this has been talked about a MILLION times, but I am curious how maternity leave works for each person on this board. Where do you live, what is your companies policy, paid or unpaid,& duration? This sparked my interest through another post I read, so I decided to start a new post to ask instead of hijacking someone else's post. This doesn't apply to me, I am not currently pregnant. But I am SUPER curious for feedback. Thanks all! Hope everyone is well!
I'm from Canada too and here also we get about $500 a month per child in lower income families i believe under $45000 a year (i might be wrong) to answer your other question if I were to make $600 take home would be around $400-$500 depending on the job. Also all our living expences are alot higher then the US. To feed a family of 5 cost about $300 a week (with mostly no name products) And the free health care is great....:)
How would that be possible with free health care for everyone and apparently tons of paid leave for each child born? So, are you saying Canadians are basically totally reliant on their government to pick up all these tabs, and if so, it is hidden is some kind of tax somewhere, or else all of these programs would have failed., The government gets it $$ somewhere.. They may pay less income tax, but some tax of theirs MUST be incredibly higher.
Actually they only pay from $300-$900 a year for health coverage. If you make less than $20,000 then you are exempt from the insurance tax. They pay less income tax than US citizens.
Your taxes must be insane!! I would NEVER want to hand over that much money OR control to my government.. I know you all have universal health care. I am not a fan of that idea either, but that's a whole other topic.. Do you know what % of your income is taxed? For example.. If you grossed $600/week, how much would you take home in Canada (approx)?
Oh, yeah, I forgot...I was without pay for 6 weeks, but I made an arrangement with my boss and got approved by HR to work from home for the last 6 weeks at 100% pay. It's not the norm though.
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