Are Mums Forced Back to Work Too Soon?
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Do you think mums are forced to go back to work too soon?
Parents can end up worse off on maternity pay, making them need to go back to the workplace before they are ready.
Tough question to answer but there has to be a limit to how much maternity pay people can receive else some people would never actually work.
jms19 There is, but maternity pay is often quite a bit lower than the wage they would bring in by going back to work.
SamGoodship yeah I’m not too familiar with the ins and outs, admittedly. And in theory I’m definitely behind new mothers getting as much time as they want to raise their kids but realistically can companies afford to pay some of their staff to be off for multiple years.
Maternity pay isn’t enough to keep Mums at home. With high mortgages and inflation Mums have to return to work. After child costs many make such a small amount that it causes so much stress.
Pjran Childcare costs are HUGE. When my little one was born, I worked retail and it would have taken all of my wage.
SamGoodship the costs for child care are extortionate these days. My niece had a live in nanny.
Depends on your workplace and scheme. I’m not a mum but remember when I worked full time employees worked up certain rights and a lot of women got up to a year off with at least 6 months pay and the original job to go back to. Meanwhile everyone else covers their jobs as well as their own.
It depends on a number of different issues. It depends how long you get paid leave for and if you can afford to be off for longer with a smaller amount of pay. Sometimes we are forced to leave the workforce for a period of time too.
I am lucky that I get an enhancement one otherwise will need to go back earlier. For mums who don't have that is a struggle
Surely the number one priority in the situation with global warming is to reduce the number of people on the planet to create more space for a natural world so we should be moving towards making having children a little more difficult not making it easier. So policies that motivate people a little bit not to have children or at least less children need to implemented. The UK has become ridiculously overpopulated with an incredibly high population density nowadays. This shouldn't just be ignored.
BonzoBanana can't stop people having children there body nothing to do with anyone else
Leannexxx You can't stop them making that choice of course but you can remove benefits that make it easier for them to have children so you motivate more people not to have children. Especially as the UK is now ridiculously over populated. I'm certainly not suggesting people should be forced to not have children just remove financial support because of the huge damage it is doing to the environment with so many people. The government should work out a ideal population figure and then have policies that work towards that over the next 100-200 years.
BonzoBanana omg not every mother is on benefits I was working full time when I had my first child and the company I worked for closed down while I was on maternity and do you have children? If so how would you feel if that was difficult for you to have had them and I like it's always the mothers fault they got pregnant men play a part too
Things have changed since I had children. I never got maternity leave. I became a stay at home mum and brought up our four children while my husband went to work.
Like eyeballkerry I became a stay at home mum. I did get maternity leave of 6 weeks up to due date but my job was non-returnable, the view was I wanted a child I looked after it!
lilyflower I did not get any maternity leave but as a family we managed without child care or parents on call 24:7.
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