{"id":160,"date":"2008-09-15T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/?p=160"},"modified":"2008-09-15T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T18:32:12","slug":"maternity-leaves-for-self-employed-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Maternity leaves for self-employed people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservatives promised to introduce maternity leaves for self-employed people.\u00c2\u00a0 Self-employed Canadians would need to opt-in at least 6 months in advance and pay a premium.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are contractors who seek a full-time job for the sole purpose of receiving the benefit of a maternity leave.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s disruptive for these contractors and for the company that hired someone just to see them leave 6-7 months later.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a good idea.\u00c2\u00a0 Not so sure about the specifics, but it&#8217;ll be fine-tuned or explained better soon, hopefully.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m surprised that this idea came from the Conservatives &#8211; how does that fit in their putative evil right-wing hidden agenda?\u00c2\u00a0 How am I supposed to write them off if they pull stunts like that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/FederalElection\/article\/499419\">Toronto Star article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservatives promised to introduce maternity leaves for self-employed people.\u00c2\u00a0 Self-employed Canadians would need to opt-in at least 6 months in advance and pay a premium. Currently, there are contractors who seek a full-time job for the sole purpose of receiving the benefit of a maternity leave.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s disruptive for these contractors and for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}