Former employee at Ivanka Trump's clothing line says heiress' company didn't initially have paid mat

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Daily News

Former employee at Ivanka Trump's clothing line says heiress' company didn't initially have paid maternity leave policy

A former executive at Ivanka Trump's clothing line said Monday that employees at the company were not provided with a formal paid maternity leave policy and had to fight "long and hard" for one — the latest contradiction for one of the most prominent talking points for the GOP nominee's daughter.

Marissa Velez Kraxberger, who formerly worked as the chief marketing officer for the younger Trump's eponymous clothing company, wrote in a lengthy Facebook post that she nearly fell "ill" after seeing a TV commercial in which Ivanka and her father touted the campaign's paid maternity leave proposal.

Velez Kraxberger recalled she was offered a job by Ivanka Trump years earlier when she was pregnant and when she "asked about maternity leave, (Ivanka) said she would have to think about it, that at Trump they don't offer maternity leave and that she went back to work just a week after having her first child."

"Our team — the ones who created #WomenWhoWork and the ones who the hashtag really stood for — fought long and hard to get her to finally agree to 8 weeks paid maternity leave," Velez Kraxberger said, referring to the hashtag Ivanka Trump has used to promote her self-named brand, which according to Forbes sees revenues of $100 million a year.

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[turbinetree]

1. I guess when your the boss's daughter and have kids, you can have paid leave

nice double standard, right.
And then when other woman have a pregnancy -------nope, no can do

Silver spoon doesn't travel to far, say one thing and then do another------------has her father would say, "it's only business folks, only business", right. Not to much empathy, unless confronted, and then its still a chore, to do whats right-----amazing

[radical noodle]

2. Not a surprise

It's often the policy of companies to have salaried employees who are paid pretty much no matter what and hourly workers who get little or nothing for time off. I was always salaried and paid for absences, but I only took 10 days off when I had my baby. Later I saw this play out over and over in the places I worked. There was little owner support for paid maternity leave because they felt that would open the door to things like sick pay <gasp!> or even vacation pay <bigger gasp!>.