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Genuine question here -- where and how are employees without children treated differently? In the US, besides parental leave at the birth of a child (which only some employers offer), are there employers that offer differing time off? I work in healthcare, and everywhere I've ever worked provides paid time off equally to everyone. The biggest difference is parents usually end up burning vacation days due to sick kids or school holidays
In my working experience it is the ultimate get out of work excuse. Few questions/resistance offered from managers who then make the other workers who don't have kids cover shifts, work late, do the crap jobs that nobody wants to do, etc
I guess I've never had a job or been a manager who questioned someone for calling out sick. Doesn't matter why someone is calling out sick unless it becomes a pattern
My husband (we’re childfree) is way more likely to get called into work on a weekend to fix something than his other coworkers are because they all have children, who are all teens by now, too. I guess spending time with your wife and going to the park on a Saturday just isn’t as important as taking your kid to the park on a Saturday. Hmm.
Has he ever tried setting boundaries around that? Is he getting compensated more for coming in on a weekend?
Yes, he gets paid for it. It’s just predictable and annoying that it’s always him “ because kids “. Definitely gets old.