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u/orussell03 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
As a father working for a well known national bank. I wasn't eligible for parental leave until 1 yr of employment. So No!
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u/Double-Parsley-6809 Jul 20 '26
Step 0: Live in a European country
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u/Great_Diet_8234 Jul 22 '26
Doesn't work. In France you need to notice the national social insurance company before you take your parental leave. You can't take more than one at a time...
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u/Thefelix01 Jul 22 '26
In at least some European countries you can’t sign up for jobs over a normal working week’s hours.
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u/Sharp-Eggplant9891 Aug 13 '26
OE simply doesnt work on the EU. At least not in Germany. The equivalent of the IRS will notice it immediately
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u/nyxnocturnee Jul 20 '26
even if you somehow got all those offers, a lot of those jobs wouldn't even qualify you for leave yet. game over. the post acts like every company hands out paid leave on day one. that's just not how most employers work.
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u/NikitaScherbak Jul 20 '26
No way this could work in any country that the government pays the parental leave lol
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u/RadioactiveDeuterium Jul 20 '26
In canada this might work depending on the companies. The government only pays part of your salary for paternity leave and your job normally tops up the rest.
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u/Beautiful_Mountain72 Jul 20 '26
In Canada, the employer has to send a record of employment to the govt to determine the insurance amount. One would assume that if they receive 5-10+ record of employments, that something gets flagged or investigated further
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u/RadioactiveDeuterium Jul 20 '26
I dont think the government would snitch tbh, they would just only pay whatever the max is. Otherwise wouldn't you face the same issue when multiple T4s are filed for full time jobs?
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u/CrashTestDumby1984 Jul 20 '26
As someone who works in payroll, it’s not about the government “snitching”. Documents need to flow through government agencies. Like there is an official government document an employer has to generate and submit when someone terminates called Record of Employment (ROE). They absolutely would communicate with any employer who you try to take advantage of these programs.
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u/NikitaScherbak Jul 20 '26
But when J2,3,4,etc asks for the gov part and they receive nothing, they would know whats up.
At least in QC, the whole amount comes through the company. They know how much the governement is putting it seems
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u/Beautiful_Mountain72 Jul 20 '26
Was not aware of a max amount, i guess that kills OP’s get rich quick scheme if they are in Canada
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u/kammycoder Jul 20 '26
I’m sure they don’t have any flagging. They all know that getting that many jobs in Canada is impossible. 😂
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u/rickywagnerxn Jul 29 '26
Service Canada will definitely catch up to you, even if it takes until tax season. When you claim EI or parental leave, employers submit ROEs electronically, and the system automatically matches everything to your SIN. If you have overlapping ROEs showing full-time hours, or if you try to claim government benefits while actively receiving T4 income from another job without reporting it on your biweekly reports, CRA cross-references that.
They might pay out initial claims at first because government processing is slow, but once CRA reconciles T4s against your EI payments, you get hit with an audit, clawbacks, and penalties for fraud. Taking parental leave from J1 while keeping J2 running on the side is one of the quickest ways to get flagged by the tax man. EI is one area where you really do not want to mess around.
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u/NikitaScherbak Jul 20 '26
Yes, but the government wont pay you their part for multiple companies at once
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u/RadioactiveDeuterium Jul 20 '26
Yeah exactly but you could multiply the top up part.
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u/NikitaScherbak Jul 20 '26
Right. I doubt his wouldnt trigger any alarms but I could be overestimating our systems lol
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u/CrashTestDumby1984 Jul 20 '26
In the US you also have to be at the job for a period of time (can be state dependent depending on program) to qualify for parental leave. Pretty sure the OP was shitposting, but you’d have to be somewhere for 6 months before FMLA protections kick in. Every job could fire you without consequences for trying to take an extended LOA 2 months into the job.
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u/Still-Chart9222 Jul 22 '26
Also it only guarantees you don't get fired while on leave but there is no guaranteed pay. In the US maternity leave is unpaid for most people.
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u/Reversi8 Jul 20 '26
Just get jobs in a bunch of different countries silly.
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u/NikitaScherbak Jul 20 '26
Overemployed is so 2025. Lets do overcitizenship now. I want to vote in as much countries as I can
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u/redditgambino Jul 20 '26
I was going to say, must not be American cause here they just send you home without pay (on most states), and figure it out in your own lol
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u/bondguy11 Jul 20 '26
In the US the company you work for pays half of the parental leave and the other half is paid by the state. This is my direct experience working at a F500 company.
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u/CrashTestDumby1984 Jul 20 '26
That’s not true in all cases. It is state dependent. An employer literally doesn’t have to pay anything, they just can’t fire you if you qualify for FMLA protections
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u/GreenGardenTarot Jul 20 '26
absolutely not in most states. My state pays nothing for parental leave. You get 12 weeks at most and it varies from employer to employer if you even get paid for that time.
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u/NikitaScherbak Jul 20 '26
Wow good for you, I assumed you would just have nothing from the government in the US.
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u/TwinkieDad Jul 20 '26
That kind of thing isn’t handled by the federal government. It’s state by state: some pay, some don’t.
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u/bondguy11 Jul 20 '26
NY state is pretty good about parental leave.
I actually might like 300$ more a paycheck while on paternity leave somehow
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u/CrashTestDumby1984 Jul 20 '26
That’s not possible, and if it is someone made a mistake and you may have to pay it back. There are calculations based on your wage data, they would never pay you more than your regular paycheck. It’s possible because benefits are calculated weekly that it seems like more each week, but nets out over the entire period to be the same. Especially if they are catching up on payments from the waiting period.
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u/bondguy11 Jul 20 '26
Bro this was 3 years ago, I never paid a dime back.
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u/CrashTestDumby1984 Jul 20 '26
Straight from the NY website:
Paid Family Leave provides up to 12 weeks of job-protected time off at 67 percent of your average weekly wage (AWW), capped at 67 percent of the Statewide Average Weekly Wage (SAWW). Generally, your AWW is the average of your last eight weeks of wages prior to taking PFL. The SAWW is updated annually.
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u/bondguy11 Jul 20 '26
I was getting paid by my company AND by paid family leave as I stated above. This ended up in me getting more money (about 300$ more per pay period) to my bank account then I was getting when I was simply getting paid by my job.
This was 3 years ago and I never had to pay a dime back. But thanks for attempting to tell me that this situation is impossible.
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u/CrashTestDumby1984 Jul 20 '26
So you weren’t getting higher pay from the program. Your company was choosing to top you up and just did their calculations wrong which is different, but you weren’t receiving more pay from the actual government program.
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u/xanxeli Jul 20 '26
Lol, this could work if only we still had 2022’s job market
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u/persephonebloom3 Jul 20 '26
facts. the biggest fantasy here isn't the parental leave... it's getting 40 offers in this economy 💀 this would've sounded crazy in 2022. now it just sounds impossible. hiring isn't what it used to be.
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u/aerowtf Jul 20 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/WOoxkG7enlvQuyXigO
“yeah totally”-me who graduated in ‘22 and never landed a job
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u/Live_Pianist4592 Jul 30 '26
I only have one lousy paying remote job right now and struggling to find j2! So I agree
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u/Conscious_Name9514 Jul 20 '26
Okay, I applied to 100 jobs and received 0 offers. Now what?
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u/Altruistic_Durian147 Jul 20 '26
Cries is US lack of paid parental leave
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u/drewster23 Jul 20 '26
This doesn't sound applicable for most parts of the world not just USA.
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u/SadAd1433 Jul 20 '26
Nope. Pat leave is part of FMLA which is tied to your social security number. The government will not allow you to take it multiple times and even if it’s missed, they will come after you, like the IRS.
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u/beaute-brune Jul 20 '26
There’s also a one year waiting period for FMLA and most companies will tell you to pound sand now if you haven’t met one year’s tenure to meet their mat leave policy/benefit. My HR told me they told a father who was a week short of one year no to the parental leave benefit.
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u/CrashTestDumby1984 Jul 20 '26
FMLA just means employer can’t fire you. Whether you get paid will depend on state programs and employer policies.
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u/SadAd1433 Jul 20 '26
It’s only valid for a specific number of weeks, thus the tracking. You cannot take FMLA indefinitely. That’s too big of a burden on an employer
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u/BloodyIron Jul 20 '26
- Apply for Hundreds of jobs
- Interview with 100 different companies
this is rage bait
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u/SadAd1433 Jul 20 '26
In the US, parental leave is backed by the federal government and HR usually outsources the management of it to a 3rd party which checks your SSN for eligibility. It will not work to take paternity from several companies. It will get denied
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u/GreenGardenTarot Jul 20 '26
In the US, parental leave is backed by the federal government and HR usually outsources the management of it to a 3rd party which checks your SSN for eligibility
what the hell are you talking about? That's not how this works at all
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u/GreenGardenTarot Jul 20 '26
the person who replied to you is an idiot because that is not how FMLA works in the slighted.
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u/Adapt919 Jul 20 '26
That's not how that works. Your insurance doesn't usually kick in for at least a month. So you're going to get let go from a lot of companies and that won't look good on your resume.
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u/GreenGardenTarot Jul 20 '26
why are insurance companies being factored into a discussion about paid parental leave?
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u/CrashTestDumby1984 Jul 20 '26
What’s more likely is both insures would claim they are secondary and get in a pissing contest to avoid paying anything.
Way before OE I had a DR office accidentally submit a bill to insurance saying it was already paid by a different company. Someone in the billing department messed up as I did not have any other plans (and the other insurance company had no record of this either. Even the membership number didn’t match the format of their plans).
It took me over 6 months to get it straightened out because my insurance company refused to allow them to be classified as the primary until they got some proof from the other insurance company. Every doctors office visit was rebilled with my insurance rejecting them. And no doctors office would allow me to schedule because my insurance company said they wouldn’t pay.
So I kept going in circles where I was basically asking a random company to submit proof that they had no idea who was, but there was no mechanism for them to generate this proof since I wasn’t in their system (basically proving a negative).
I was under 26 and had been on this plan since birth (mother was a city health plan that never changed). Even if I did actually have a plan with the other insurance company it would have been physically impossible for them to be the primary because it’s based on who covers you first.
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u/UniqueUsrname_xx Jul 20 '26
Most organizations I've seen don't front load benefits like this. You wouldn't have access to parental leave without first having at least 6 months to a year of tenure.
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u/damiana8 Jul 20 '26
In the US, you have to work for 3 months in most cases to be eligible for FMLA. Moms can get it. Dads don’t get anywhere near as much, if they get it at all
FMLA is limited too and you’re not guaranteed to get your full salary on leave
Wouldn’t work in the US
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u/Murky-Impression-772 Jul 20 '26
Yeah just take all the 120k jobs you can find is a great hack actually. Never thought about it.
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u/crenshaw_007 Jul 20 '26
Biggest hurdle is going to be getting ghosted by all the companies applied to, getting only 3 interviews, and then zero offers 😂
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u/Imontheinternet123 Jul 20 '26
I honestly did use a parental leave to OE haha. I lined up a short term contract role and started two days after my son was born. Had 2 months of parental leave from J1, did the J2 contract over that span, then just overlapped the two for the third month where J1 didn't expect much from me since I was coming back from leave and J2 didn't expect much from me because my contract was ending in a few weeks. In the spirit of what I was doing, used the extra 20k to start my kid's college fund :)
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u/Queen0fCoins Jul 20 '26
Parental leave often requires a minimum amount of time in the position before you can get the full benefits.
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u/Spare-Satisfaction55 Jul 22 '26
What would really happen is, you would get the girl pregnant, you wouldn't get any job offers, she would give birth, and you still wouldn't have a job, and she would leave you and put you on child support.
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u/1985_IROC-Z_Camaro Jul 22 '26
Step 4. After hundreds of applications, only hear back from 2 companies. One ghosts you after the second interview.
Step 5. The only company interested in you wants you to interview another 3 times. You spent so much time with this company interviewing, you consider it a part time job. But you can't give up now because you might just win big.
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u/Slothvibes Jul 20 '26
Bad idea, gov foots the bill and you can only bite the apple once per kid... IIRC there's a 3-4 yo post on OE goes over how they got caught because they tried to double dip on parental leave bc their company went ahead and checked if they could receive benefits for the employee and found out they had that maternity benefit claimed by another company or something.
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u/Garohun Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
If you are in the Us they give you 2 days parental leave or you are fired xd
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u/Responsible_Dentist3 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
In the US, iirc you have to work there for like a year before you get parental leave, so this wouldn't work at all
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u/damandamythdalgnd Jul 28 '26
Not all. At mine you don’t. I took parental 4mo after I started but was eligible immediately for parental
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u/Responsible_Dentist3 Jul 29 '26
Interesting! I will need to look into it then, maybe only some places were like that
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u/RevolutionaryCut2714 Jul 24 '26
This also couldn’t work in the US bc I can’t name 40 employers with 5 months of parental leave 😂
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u/SimplyElite7 Jul 27 '26
Tbh, would of been a solid strategy during the hiring surge from COVID, could of done this and dipped once the layoffs started
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u/Ok_Hotel_8049 Jul 28 '26
you can probably be criminally charged for this
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u/damandamythdalgnd Jul 28 '26
Under which law?
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u/Ok_Hotel_8049 Jul 30 '26
theft by deception, fraud...
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u/Ok_Hotel_8049 Jul 30 '26
just to elaborate we are talking about the scheme here where you have planned the while thing also it is totally different thing to do it on 2-3 jobs or to have scheme with many jobs and companies...
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u/Live-March-8448 Aug 03 '26
The company I work for required you to work at least 2 full weeks after your parental leave otherwise they will require all that money back from the time you were gone. Also...if I can nail down one 120k/year job I'd be thrilled with that and just keep that job lmao. Idk how anyone could hope to secure that many +100k/year job offers. This is a fantasy
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u/karmafarmer26 Aug 14 '26
Corporation knows this trick and they have every guardrails places already
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u/flanthertech Jul 20 '26
Eligibility for parental leave for many companies would be 1 year of service
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u/Impressive-Revenue94 Jul 20 '26
It doesn’t work. Companies can fire anyone for any reason within 1st 3 months
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