See i applaud the action but also find there to be some weasel words in "compensated" and "fairly". It may seem to only have one interpretation, but bear with me.
At my previous employer, in Canada, we had to pay a portion into short-term and long-term disability insurance, it was just a thing. In Ontario, when a woman takes maternity leave, they are eligible for EI for the 13wks post partum, and our employer plan had a "top up" to full salary for first two weeks then a sliding scale down through the remainder. This benefit was paid out by STD, and so all women who elected to bear children while employed could claim this. And parent (non-child bearing, or adoptive) can also claim 39 weeks of parental leave, and this can be shared between parents, but has to be taken as a block. This pays EI as well, but is not compensated through STD programs in the same way.

My new employer has a pretty similar setup, except for the duration is 6wks (because, apparently, the US hates mothers) and that contribution to STD fund is voluntary. The latter part means that prospective mothers need to pay a "tax" to cover their disability needs that non-child bearing folks do not.

So, back to the weasel words. Does "compensation" mean just salary, and ensuring that same pay for same work is applied (which at the outset would be great), or does it mean also that both men and women are asked to make the same monetary investments regardless of gender (or desire to have kids)?

The only fair parental leave policy is this: if a new parent wants to fuck off of work for several months to be with their kid (unpaid, of course -- babies are expensive, get used to it!), that's fine, but that also means that if I want to fuck off of work for several months to drink beer and play Minecraft in my underwear (also unpaid, of course), that should be allowed too.

Anything else is pro-breeder discrimination.

Reproduction rights should be revoked, from here out on all children are conceived in state approved exowombs via lottery selected donor samples. The first 18 years of life are spent in a State creche system where a dedicated staff of professional parents and mentors molds the next generation of citizen to optimum psychological and physical profiles, with variances granted for unique/experimental specimans. At 30, there is the Carrousel.

This way, everything is fair.

And then the Tamassrans determine who you shall mate with.

Congratulations! You have been selected to mate! Please watch this romantic video "Hopeless in Seattle" and insert turkey baster when you hear the chime.

I'm totally with you except for that last bit. Why go to all that trouble raising citizens only to kill them off at the age where they're just starting to become productive members of society?

I take it you aren't planning on collecting any sort of pension then, yes? Or social security /OAS type payments? 'Cause someone has to keep feeding those ponzi schemes, and it is either naturalized births or immigrants. I'll be naming my next child "anchor".

Separately, some companies still offer sabbatical, which is a paid leave, or various kids of unpaid leave beyond the pink slip kind. The only value that is provided to birth mothers is that by law they are eligible for the same (category /type of) job upon their return, same is true for non-birth parents who take leave (in Canada, doesn't seem to be anything comparable in the US).


You can always claim stress leave, if you really feel that a few weeks of gaming in your housecoat are the best way to spend your time. Personally I would be just bored after two weeks.

That's cool and all but there's 16k employees. The CEO usually makes a shit ton of money- shouldn't he be having his HR do this or outsourcing this to a private company? How efficient can this guy be?

That said, maybe it's good public relations and maybe it helps put pressure on HR ala "I'm watching you!".

I'm just super highly skeptical of CEOs in America because I don't think they deserve that kind of pay scale #PinkoCommieMookie

Ie maybe if e had a more reasonable salary and donated the exess to a fund- he could single handledly lighten his workload and solve this problem.

But you know, American CEOs need excessive compensation to attract the "best" talent.

Oh sure, when I want to share the wealth of the elite with the masses you threaten to go to war, but when a CEO is working at it you want full on revolution.
I guess what I am trying to say dear Mookie, is GIVE ME YOUR KARMA.

Cough the wage gap doesn't exist cough

Someone's been watching Maddox:

How every company in America can save 23% on wages

Blag blah blah feminism. Blah patriarchy blah Anita sarkeesean blah

Unsure if you're trolling or not.

Well played.

Actually I'm not. The wage gap doesn't exist. Third wave feminists need to change their tampon and stfu

Never before has someone relegated themselves to irrelevance quicker.

Please spew more nonsense about how oppressed women are. Seriously . I could talk for hours on the feminist mouthpiece Anita skarkesesn alone.