Ethical to get a job with a company with good new parent leave policy right before having a baby?
I've been working at my own start up for over a year, and my wife's job has kept the bills paid and roof over our heads. However, she will have our second child in a month + a week or two. Once she does, we decided together that she should transition to be a stay at home mom.
Independently, my Co-founder and I decided we should part ways, so it looks like my days with the start up are done and it's time for me to go get a paying job.
Like I said in the title, is it ethical to get a job somewhere like Mastercard where they have a 16 week new parent leave one month before having a baby? (not really targeting mastercard. They are just a company I know that has a great policy here in the US)
Will most companies even let me take the new parent leave if I've been employed so short a time?
I'm a data scientist with management and engineering experience.
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Will some coworker silently judge you? Maybe, but f them.