On returning to work from maternity leave
This post is a summary of experiences around the return to work after maternity leave with tips for new mommas and colleagues sourced from an instagram post and its comments.
Don’t forget your performance and salary review on maternity leave
Maternity and child care leave are an essential period in a mother’s life, and it is crucial to ensure that your career does not suffer during this time. Many working mommas hesitate or forget to ask for a performance and salary review when going on maternity and child care leave, assuming that it may not…
How Going On Maternity Leave Can Mess With Your Mind
Going on maternity leave can be a confusing time. By using Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs”, this post is discussing the transition from work, to maternity leave before and after baby.
A Manager’s View On Maternity Leave Plans
How do you prepare a maternity leave plan that your employer will love? When you look for maternity leave plan guides, templates or recommendations there are many articles and experience reports from the perspective of the momma-to-be. I have yet to find an article from an organization or a manager talking about how they would…
How to pay resident taxes on maternity leave
Taxes – the one thing no one likes but we all have to do. If you’re like me, you have never spent too much attention to your taxes unless for the obligatory year end tax filing. As an employee of a Japanese company the attention became even less as they are handling all tax payments…
Don’t miss out: Complete List of Financial Benefits for Pregnancy, Birth and Child Care
There are many different forms of financial support for the pregnancy, birth and baby journey. I have been seeing many different articles and posts talking about some or the other. However, I have not seen a complete list with all the benefits my family is receiving. My experience is based on having two babies as…
How to apply for maternity leave in Japan
The term ‘applying’ for maternity leave might actually be a little bit confusing. You are legally entitled to maternity leave. Therefore, you might think of it as informing the different stakeholders of your situation. These notifications are important for your social security payments and the receipt of the financial support while on maternity leave. The…
7 Best Tips to Communicate your Pregnancy and Maternity Leave To Your Employer
Within the same month of my promotion to management level I found out that I was pregnant. Thanks to examples of female managers and executives going on and returning from maternity leave within my organization just months before I hardly worried. I jumped right to “how to make this work” and how to create a…