Saturday, February 21, 2009
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For her birthday this year my kid and I signed my wife up for Pregnant Lady Training. It’s an exercise program for pregnant woman that teaches them basic, low intensity exercises that are safe and good for them. Their husbands can participate too. My deputy is also pregnant; she has just one week of work left before going on sick leave, so they’ll work out when they can both go together (my deputy’s husband lives in Italy, so it’ll be fun if they can go together). As I understand it six weeks before you’re due you go on state sponsored “sick leave,” and as soon as you give birth either you or your husband goes on state sponsored “maternity/paternity leave.” (Actually you both go on leave for one month, and then one of you stays on leave for two years with pay, and an additional year without pay)
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2 years with pay? Holy crap! How the f--k does LT afford that?
well, it's not like the pay is very high. although, there has been some corruption lately: a firm was opened which would pay you to pay them; the amount they paid you was less than you paid them, because of the taxes and their cut, but the amount you got back in cash you'd continue to get back once you gave birth for 24 months. LT can afford it because our priorities aren't that far off the mark, and because our abortion rates are through the roof.
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