Donald Trump Mum on Paid Maternity Leave for His Workers

[DonViejo]

Ivanka claims the Trump Organization is supportive of new mothers. But it’s unclear if anyone at the company receives paid time off after the birth of a child.

The question of whether Donald Trump provides paid maternity leave for any of his 22,000 employees should be easy enough to answer. But if women at the Trump Organization do receive paid time off after the birth of a child, no one, least of all the Trump Organization, is saying.

The Republican presidential nominee has said little about paid family leave during his campaign and does not have an official position, according to his website. When asked about paid family leave by Fox Business News’ Stuart Varney in October, Trump offered, “Well it’s something that’s being discussed, I think we have to keep our country very competitive, so you have to be careful of it, but certainly there are a lot of people discussing it.”

At the Republican Nation Convention, Trump’s daughter and company vice president, Ivanka Trump, argued that her father would be a champion for women’s rights—“as president, my father will change the labor laws that were put into place at a time when women were not a significant portion of the workforce”—and spoke specifically of the Trump Organization: “Women are paid equally for the work that we do,” she said. “And when a woman becomes a mother, she is supported, not shut out.”

Politically, it makes sense to talk about it now when polling suggests some 72 percent of Americans support a national standard for paid family leave.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/15/donald-trump-mum-on-paid-maternity-leave-for-his-workers.html

[Curtland1015]

1. I read that too fast as "Donald Trump's Mom on paid maternity leave".

But that definitely is something that would be smart for the Hillary camp to hammer him on.

[PatSeg]

3. Same here

I thought it was going to be about something Trump's mother had said about maternity leave.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Aren't there federal laws requiring

companies allow paid family leave?

[bettyellen]

4. Not at all, nope. Unpaid leave of up to 12 weeks for any family medical need is only mandated for

Larger employers. It is supposed to make sure they are not fired for taking the time off.
It works about as well as the toothless Ledbetter equal pay at.
Only Paupau New Guinea lacks paid leave.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. If 22,000 employees doesn't make

Trump a larger employer, I wonder how many it takes.

But even 12 weeks unpaid is better than nothing at all, although I am constantly horrified that so many people think this is such a wonderful country even though we don't have universal health care, no guaranteed sick leave, no guaranteed vacations.

[bettyellen]

7. Unpaid is ridiculous. Most countries let parents split the time too. That's part of why feminism

Can benefit men too. No one should be forced into doing ALL the caregiving.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. Oh, I agree.

But people in this country, too many of them, are convinced that we can't possible afford a decent and humane workplace.

[virgogal]

5. Nope,just unpaid.