Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
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Re: Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
#2As Umberto Eco said: what do I do when my thesis advisor is an arsehole? Answer: come on, dude, you knew that before!
Re: Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
#3A true family.
Re: Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
#4Its true but only in certain states and only after 14 days of leave. It also appears that this only applies to 'Parental' leave as vesting continues like normal for 'Pregnancy' leave. I guess fathers and adoptive parents are taking a hit but mothers aren't. See [1] for details.
It does look like this setup has the potential to screw over an employee if they have a vesting date in the last 3 weeks of December and take their full 6 weeks of 'Parental' leave as it would shift a vest to the next calendar year thereby artificially inflating the compensation for that next year.
1. https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/benefitsoverview-us
Re: Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
#5Wow! Who’d have imagined that?
Re: Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
#6Last I was there, you couldn't take parental leave your first year. Sad.
Re: Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
#7Its true but only in certain states and only after 14 days of leave. It also appears that this only applies to 'Parental' leave as vesting continues like normal for 'Pregnancy' leave. I guess fathers and adoptive parents are taking a hit but mothers aren't. See [1] for details. It does look like this setup has the potential to screw over an employee if they have a vesting date in the last 3 weeks of December and take…
fathers can give birth. fathers can menstruate.
Re: Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
#8Its true but only in certain states and only after 14 days of leave. It also appears that this only applies to 'Parental' leave as vesting continues like normal for 'Pregnancy' leave. I guess fathers and adoptive parents are taking a hit but mothers aren't. See [1] for details. It does look like this setup has the potential to screw over an employee if they have a vesting date in the last 3 weeks of December and take…
Comp doesn't work with calendar years though
Re: Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
#9Amazon recruiters seem to reach out more than anyone else, and I don't think i'll ever feel desperate enough to deal with that toxic culture of a company.
The products are indeed exciting in many cases, but 10 days of PTO for your first year? I got more PTO from a no-name tiny non-tech company as my first job in Austin, TX.
Re: Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
#10Last I was there, you couldn't take parental leave your first year. Sad.
I worked for an organization in a salaried position that had a waiting period for getting health benefits at all. And it was itself a healthcare organization.
I also remember that you couldn't get FMLA leave before a certain amount of time passed. Which is why I left, because stuff happened shortly after I was hired and they wouldn't bend the rules.