Netflix’s year of paid decree hit hardened Americans

As President Barack Obama himself admitted, the United States is the only developed country in the world in which there is no paid maternity leave.

In the United States, no one really gives anyone a paid decree - the state only guarantees “leave of its own expense” for twelve weeks.

Slightly better conditions for civil servants. Everything from above is entirely at the discretion of the employer.

That is why the news that the company Netfix gives new daddies and mothers a whole year of paid leave, so struck the Americans.

Whether to give young parents paid vacation and how much to keep their workplace, if they want to stay at home for more than three months - in America this is completely decided by the employer.

And yesterday, Netfix, an American media company that provides streaming video, announced the news on its website: they now pay for a year of leave after the birth or adoption of a child.

Representatives of the company wrote in your blog:

Further success of Netflix depends on the most talented people in their field. Experience shows that people work better when they are not worried about household problems.

Through this approach, both parents can take as much vacation as they want. They can return to part-time work, or full time, or work a couple of months, and then leave again.

Netfix even bypassed Google with such generosity, which is considered one of the best employers and provides 18 weeks of paid maternity leave. Facebook gives four months. And new mothers working at Apple are given 14-weekly decree (for dads only six weeks).

In general, Americans are not spoiled by holidays. In private American companies, according to the Department of Labor, only 12 percent of employees are entitled to any paid leave for family reasons, writes Demanjo.

Even before Netflix is ​​a British company Virgin Group led by an eccentric billionaire Richard Branson offered an equally pleasant gift to parents.

He promised to pay the entire year from 25% monthly salary for employees with less than two years of experience, and 100% for those who worked more than four years. This also applies to adoptive parents.

Sir Richard Branson said:

I think if you care about your employees, they will take care of your business. As a father and now proud grandfather of three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical is the first year of a child’s life, and how much you need to work with him.

In the countries of the former USSR and Israel, the situation with the decree is different.

In Israel, for example, the expectant mother is given 14 weeks of paid maternity leave. After that, she can sit at home with the baby for six months and not worry about the workplace, writes Izraland.

In Russia, there are twenty weeks of paid leave, after which the mother can take parental leave until she is three years old. A very similar system in Ukraine: eighteen weeks of paid maternity leave. Then - leave to care for a child up to three years.