Fun story: I worked someplace with "progressive" parental leave policies, and one of my coworkers had a large number of adopted children. The company's policies applied not only to the father, but also to adoptions. So when he adopted a child he got something like 6 weeks of leave. Which he took and promptly used for a road-trip. During which he visited a co-worker who worked remotely out of state. Everything was great until during a tele-conference said remote co-worker mentioned "<guy on parental leave> says 'hi'" during a meeting where the guy's boss was on the line. The boss was displeased that the guy was using his parental leave in this way, but there wasn't much he could do about it.
I work at a place with paternity leave, but the legal definition only applies to babies once they're in the world. I wasn't allowed to use "paternity leave" to take three days to help Mom get ready for the birth, since I was planning to take Zero days afterwards. Luckily, it was during a slow period, so I just left and no one noticed lol
Fun story: I worked someplace with "progressive" parental leave policies, and one of my coworkers had a large number of adopted children. The company's policies applied not only to the father, but also to adoptions. So when he adopted a child he got something like 6 weeks of leave. Which he took and promptly used for a road-trip. During which he visited a co-worker who worked remotely out of state. Everything was great until during a tele-conference said remote co-worker mentioned "<guy on parental leave> says 'hi'" during a meeting where the guy's boss was on the line. The boss was displeased that the guy was using his parental leave in this way, but there wasn't much he could do about it.
I work at a place with paternity leave, but the legal definition only applies to babies once they're in the world. I wasn't allowed to use "paternity leave" to take three days to help Mom get ready for the birth, since I was planning to take Zero days afterwards. Luckily, it was during a slow period, so I just left and no one noticed lol