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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I do know women who've take their paid maternity leave knowing they would hand in their notice as soon as it expires, so they can then look after their children full-time.
I'm not sure how widespread that is, but I can imagine such behaviour would disgruntle an employer.
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In Germany employees have to tell you before their maternity leave when they will return to work (3 years maximum). Of course it might happen that someone hands in her notice after those three years. But if you stay in contact during this period, invite her frequently for lunch at work with her colleagues or whatever, youīll easily find out whether someoneīs looking forward to return to work some day or not.
During 6 weeks before and 8 weeks after the childīs birth health insurances pay 12,50 Euro per day. The company pays the rest (but you donīt have to pay taxes or social security contributions for it). So companies donīt have to pay the full earnings twice and higher costs are reduced to these 14 weeks.