So are you for giving more flexibility for people who don't necessarily need it, or for taking away flexibility from people who do?
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I see it this way: my boss has no right asking me if I have children or not and I have no obligation to tell the truth when asked. Its a non issue if you ask me.
Parents get to pay less taxes here, so their net pay is higher. I'm OK with that.
This seems like a bad faith take. If you have dependents — and I would include animals — then you have obligations to them. Employers tend to have carveouts for those obligations because they are universal to all humans.
Needing to care for a sick dependent is not the same as your middle-of-the-day champagne-and-pilates class, Sharon.
I feel like people don't think half a step ahead.
The children that these parents are taking care of, will probably grow up and work. Their work will allow our retirement. People without children just don't provide the same utility to the society.
We need "young people" and if we are unwilling to invest in that, we won't have them. And then we all moan about lack of social safe nets and pension safety.
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Not exactly, you don't deserve to get dick days for your child being sick if you have no child.
Also you deserve additional leneancy when your child is sick. Cannot plan for that. They just do that and need more supervision than your sick partner.
Most things that reduce non parent's ability to work can happen to parents equally.
Vacation does in fact suck though. A lack of child shouldn't make it harder for you to take a vacation. But your employer also must enable parents to take time off when their kids need supervision, so that sounds like a staffing issue.
A possible option working within existing systems would be:
Parental leave: you get pop sustain rate (2.1?) parental leaves banked. You use 1 leave for every child you have and bank is allowed negative with no penalty. At 45 or so you get to use your bank without being a parent.
Something like 95% of people become parents.
Flex time/time-bank + home/hybrid office fix most other issues in office jobs.
It's not about "deserving". It's about enabling the reproduction of the proletariat so that there's proletariat left to exploit in the future.
Whomever wrote that never had children.
I made up a whole family back in the early aughts. Honestly i did get my time off every single time with near no explanation.
The process of keeping up the facade was just more work then fighting with hr for my pto.