Comments on: Maternity Leave in the UK http://www.strocel.com/maternity-leave-in-the-uk/ Keeping it real in the suburbs Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:59:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: » Battling Bureaucracy: Nicole, Annie and Stefanie Strocel.com http://www.strocel.com/maternity-leave-in-the-uk/comment-page-1/#comment-41468 » Battling Bureaucracy: Nicole, Annie and Stefanie Strocel.com Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:03:02 +0000 http://www.strocel.com/?p=2068#comment-41468 [...] lives in the UK. (Before you check out her post, you might want to read my summary of Maternity Leave in the UK as a quick primer.) She struggled with some bureaucracy of her own, as she writes in The Moral: [...] [...] lives in the UK. (Before you check out her post, you might want to read my summary of Maternity Leave in the UK as a quick primer.) She struggled with some bureaucracy of her own, as she writes in The Moral: [...]

]]> By: michelle http://www.strocel.com/maternity-leave-in-the-uk/comment-page-1/#comment-40910 michelle Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:08:02 +0000 http://www.strocel.com/?p=2068#comment-40910 And British mothers receive paid time off for prenatal appointments, too, helping ensure healthy pregnancies. Is this the case for Canada? Can your employer force you to take vacation time to attend prenatal appointments? And British mothers receive paid time off for prenatal appointments, too, helping ensure healthy pregnancies.

Is this the case for Canada? Can your employer force you to take vacation time to attend prenatal appointments?

]]> By: Amber http://www.strocel.com/maternity-leave-in-the-uk/comment-page-1/#comment-37763 Amber Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:13:31 +0000 http://www.strocel.com/?p=2068#comment-37763 <em>I got a message about this post, and the sender has agreed that I can share it anonymously since it offers some actual first-hand experience.</em> :-) I was just reading your blog about maternity in the UK. I found it really interesting. I [lived there a couple of years] ago and have a friend who has just returned to work from maternity. Their system offers so much less to the moms (or I should say mums)! 117 pounds is nothing to live on. I lived ... 1 1/2 hours out of London. I shared a flat with 4 other people and it was subsidized by the school (a perk to attract teachers). My room was very small, but rent was 385 pounds. My friend has been teaching at this school for 10 years and was only able to take 3 months off. Her husband left her during the pregnancy so she could not afford to live off this little amount. So when her son was 10 weeks old she returned to school full time. Could you imagine? Teaching is a good job. It still takes 4+ years of uni and then you can only get 117 pounds??? That wouldn't even cover rent for most people forget about food, clothes, diapers... I got a message about this post, and the sender has agreed that I can share it anonymously since it offers some actual first-hand experience. :-)

I was just reading your blog about maternity in the UK. I found it really interesting. I [lived there a couple of years] ago and have a friend who has just returned to work from maternity. Their system offers so much less to the moms (or I should say mums)! 117 pounds is nothing to live on. I lived … 1 1/2 hours out of London. I shared a flat with 4 other people and it was subsidized by the school (a perk to attract teachers). My room was very small, but rent was 385 pounds.

My friend has been teaching at this school for 10 years and was only able to take 3 months off. Her husband left her during the pregnancy so she could not afford to live off this little amount. So when her son was 10 weeks old she returned to school full time.

Could you imagine? Teaching is a good job. It still takes 4+ years of uni and then you can only get 117 pounds??? That wouldn’t even cover rent for most people forget about food, clothes, diapers…

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