Subj : family day.. To : Ward Dossche From : August Abolins Date : Sun Mar 19 2023 10:42:00 Hello Ward! AA>> WD> Amazing, that discussion has already been had here ... my AA>> WD> very wife was in such a program for close to 10 years AA>> WD> where she was paid as a stay-at-home mam. AA>> Your income to support her wasn't good enough? WD> Why do I need to support a female? Are you still at the WD> "Daddy brings home the bacon" level? That's pre-historic. Some companies in Canada do offer a maternity leave and compensations. The gov't does too - for up to 6 months if I recall, or even up to a year. Paternity leave is also now a thing. Here in Canada there are clever persons just fine with the gov't supporting their predicaments as unwed/single parent, no- income, etc. WD> The system is pretty straightforward. [...] WD> [...] When the stay-at-home person returns to the WD> job, the fill-in person has had the opportunity to get WD> work-experience and stands a better chance of applying for WD> a job ... WD> Some people call it a win-win ... Some of the new dads or mams don't even bother returning to their previous employer, and basically run with the money. I was asked by a previous employee to keep her on the payroll long enough so that she could qualify for the minimum 52 weeks of employment when I bought a business in which she was previously employed. She got her gov't-paid maternity leave, so did her partner, and she never returned to work (either it was her choice or simply a logistical matter after she had moved to be closer to her mother). It wasn't a win-win for me at all. AA>> Enough to know that regular consumption is not good for the AA>> body. WD> Canadian beer is very good at cleansing the urinary tract. Yeah.. perhaps that is needed to remove the sludge that your altenative beers create. -- ../|ug --- OpenXP 5.0.57 * Origin: Stare into this point intently ->.<- (1:153/757.21) .