Pandora II
Ideal_Rock
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One thing that does intrigue me is how big corporations work/think when they are multi-nationals.
Finance is one of the biggest sectors in the UK economy especially here in London. I have friends who work for Goldman Sachs, worked for Lehman Brothers, work for many of the major banks/hedge funds etc - and all in pretty high-up jobs. They all took the year's maternity leave and the super-dooper extra benefits that went with it (6 months full pay etc), and many are now working part-time.
I don't think Lehman Brother's collapsed because of UK maternity leave laws (could I be wrong ), but it seems that these firms all just tick along up and down with the world economies. The same people at the very top must be saying okay, we can deal with the Brits all having stacks of holiday time and big long maternity leaves and then being stroppy and wanting to work part-time... but no-one tell the American girls or they might think we can do the same here!
Just strikes me as interesting how a company that does the exact same thing in various different countries must deal with such very different emploment law situations.
Bliss, you are such a sweetheart. Your posts always make me smile - I love how involved and passionate you are about everything!
Circe, I think you should go into politics.
I agree that people should have the right to choose what works for them - although they may not know until they have the baby there!
I always thought I shouldn't have kids unless I could afford a nanny full-time as I'd be such an awful mother and would want to go back to work asap, heck I didn't even like kids very much. Then I had a baby - she's 2 and a half and I have never spent a night away from her and wouldn't even like to think about doing so. I cried the day I sent her to nursery for the first time (5 weeks ago) as she had never, ever been away from me - she cried when I went to pick her up and said she wanted to stay there...
Finance is one of the biggest sectors in the UK economy especially here in London. I have friends who work for Goldman Sachs, worked for Lehman Brothers, work for many of the major banks/hedge funds etc - and all in pretty high-up jobs. They all took the year's maternity leave and the super-dooper extra benefits that went with it (6 months full pay etc), and many are now working part-time.
I don't think Lehman Brother's collapsed because of UK maternity leave laws (could I be wrong ), but it seems that these firms all just tick along up and down with the world economies. The same people at the very top must be saying okay, we can deal with the Brits all having stacks of holiday time and big long maternity leaves and then being stroppy and wanting to work part-time... but no-one tell the American girls or they might think we can do the same here!
Just strikes me as interesting how a company that does the exact same thing in various different countries must deal with such very different emploment law situations.
Bliss, you are such a sweetheart. Your posts always make me smile - I love how involved and passionate you are about everything!
Circe, I think you should go into politics.
I agree that people should have the right to choose what works for them - although they may not know until they have the baby there!
I always thought I shouldn't have kids unless I could afford a nanny full-time as I'd be such an awful mother and would want to go back to work asap, heck I didn't even like kids very much. Then I had a baby - she's 2 and a half and I have never spent a night away from her and wouldn't even like to think about doing so. I cried the day I sent her to nursery for the first time (5 weeks ago) as she had never, ever been away from me - she cried when I went to pick her up and said she wanted to stay there...