John Oliver says happy Mother's Day, now get back to work
This weekend brought Mother’s Day in the United States, and with it, a barrage of ads from brands of every stripe, designed to get you to buy their mom-themed products. But while these companies publicly venerate mothers to sell cards, gifts, and decorative baseball-themed flowerpots, they won’t give those same people paid maternity leave when they actually give birth. That’s because the US, as John Oliver states incredulously in the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, is one of only two countries in the world that doesn’t offer paid leave as standard for new mothers.
Where countries such as Sweden offer a year-and-a-half of paid time off on the birth of a child, to be split between parents, US federal law gives workers just 12 weeks…
Source:: The Verge
