I had a vision that she is in heaven now. This brazilian kind ex-military guy is taking care of her. His wife, the kindest person that he met when he fought against Hitler with the Resistance really loves cats.
Stay hopefull
Aheartbegins
@thebeast Good to know she'll be loved on the Other Side by them when her time comes...til then I'll be caring for her here.
I really loved your post. Thank you for bringing hope to everyone who needs some.
If I were this cat, I would be overjoyed to have found you. I would not be surprised if she was indeed guided to you. You are her blessing, her angel. May our world be filled with more caring people like you Journeywithme2. I'm thrilled you have been given some support for your care otherwise this sweet kitty. Good call on turning off the news for awhile. Honestly, I think most of us can use a break from the news, especially political news. It is toxic and oppressive right now.
3) Investment in child care and universal pre-K. I still feel good that family leave is coming in future years legislation.
Hi Dannyboy, to give you an idea on what the rest of the world does in regards to leave so that you can set your sights higher in America and aim to be on top.
This site gives all the information on leave entitlements for countries in OECD and is alphabetical. The sick leave is a bit further down.
https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF2_3_Additional_leave_entitlements_of_working_parents.pdf
The exact length of the statutory minimum varies from country to country, but in most countries employees are entitled to at least 20 working days per year. Taking into account public holidays, this means that workers in many OECD countries, especially those in Europe, are entitled to at least 30-35 days of leave annually.
The US is the only OECD country that does not provide a statutory minimum annual leave entitlement, at the federal level at least.
Here in Australia we are about average, we have 20 days annual and 8 public holidays
For Sick/Carer leave we have 10 days paid and 2 days unpaid for each episode.
In America you can have 12 weeks unpaid leave per year.
https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF2_1_Parental_leave_systems.pdf
This site gives the maternity leave, parental leave information again in alphabetical order of country of how much time and at what pay rate.
Again America is NIL, here in Australia we aren't great we are again about average in being 18 weeks leave but it is at the minimum wage and not full time earnings. Our minimum rate as at July 21 is $20.33 per hour based on a 38 hour week of $772.60.
I remember when doing wages when I was working we would do the payment through the normal pay cycle each fortnight the government would transfer the funds into the firms bank account in arrears (we paid fortnightly where I worked).
If you lived in Bulgaria you would get 58.6 weeks.
Good luck with it all, maybe time for the workers to stick together and push for change no matter what political party is followed.
Regards to all
Umm...can someone explain to me why DeJoy canceled mail service to New Zealand and Australia ?? There are other countries on the list like Cuba, Syria, Sudan and Yemen, but Down Under???
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/welcome.htm
Katie Porter is brilliant. OMG!
Did you see what she did during the most recent hearing for with BIG OIL executives who were under oath?
I LOVE this woman. I love this committee. It feels like a big shift is coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-VgyBP1EGg
Hi Lovendures
The USPS is temporarily suspending deliveries across Australia, as its delivery service in the US begins to slow to keep up with the backlog. The temporary measure is a result of the pandemic and 'other unrelated service disruptions', the company said in a statement.4 Oct 2021
"Australia Post continues to accept all incoming international deliveries, the US Postal Service has temporarily suspended some outgoing parcel services to a number of countries, including Australia, due to air freight capacity issues."
Its basically because there isn't enough air travel going on especially as Aus & NZ borders were closed. Australia (at least NSW & VIC) are starting international travel from 1st November and the other states will start once they get to the 80% vaccination rate. I don't know about NZ as yet, they haven't made a decision. Re opening the international borders will ease the air freight capacity issues. More international passenger flights will add capacity to freight movement which will increase the room for the postal service. So I guess once the international travel starts making a difference USA will start postal services again.
Regards to all.
@matildagirl It was quite a journey for us to become pregnant with the twins. Multiple miscarriages and many months of nothing led us to IVF, the first round of which did not take, the second round (three embryos implanted) took - one implanted and split giving us our beautiful twins.
My wife's pregnancy was textbook - unfortunately it was the "everything that could go wrong" textbook. Around 24 weeks she went into pre-term labor (right around Christmas time - there was no room at our hospital - I literally ranted at a nurse to see if she could point us in the direction of the nearest manger - we were transferred to Grand Rapids) and ended up on bedrest. She came home at Christmas and had to stay in bed for the remainder of her pregnancy. I taught my classes until March when she gave birth at 32 weeks , taught until spring break and then took the remainder of the school year off - she had to go back after Spring Break - about 4 weeks after giving birth because she was out of sick time.
I'm incredibly grateful that we work in a field represented by a union that has fought over the years for many things including - cumulative sick days. I was one of those "It's just a cold, I'll keep teaching" people and ended up with close to 70 sick days that I was able to take at full pay to remain at home with my newborn girls partially out of necessity because my wife who had a similar number used hers prior to birth.
What I would love to see is a guaranteed number of days for maternity/paternity leave - though I'm not certain what the right number would be. For me it was 3 months which then butted up to 3 months of summer (incidentally this is when I left the classroom for my consultant gig at the ISD) and to be completely honest, I could have used another 6 on top of that if I had had it and/or the ability to take it.
I don't know what the right number is, but everyone should have this ability regardless of field or number of sick days, and I recognize how lucky I was to have had the ability to take a form of it - but it's not enough.
My mom (still a "both sides"-er) has gotten more conservative as she's aged - a personification of that horrific stereotype who is now reaping the benefits of decades of social programs and using all the tried and true arguments about why she deserves what she has and no one else does. She too was able to use the benefits of the field of education to take sick time to stay home with myself and my brother, and doesn't understand that that's not the same in every profession, or why a national "paid leave" is a better plan. We really need an education campaign (possibly targeted through the CTC expansion) about why this is a better way to spend our tax dollars than sending more money to the military or giving the rich another tax break (because they've certainly sent those savings down to the workers over the last 40 years, amirite!?)
I am so sorry... I didn't mean to tell you her time is up. I was so flared up that I misspoke. Please forgive me.
@lovendures I love her too! Can you imagine her taking on TFG?? She is so impressive!