[SSJup81]

Nope, not legislated. It's just like the insurance thing. Some workplaces can get out of paying it, so the employee works with no health insurance. Up until now, every single job I've had, I've never had health insurance, and that includes my Assistant Teaching job back home. They got out of it, because they only had me working 30 hours a week, even though, technically, it was definitely about 40 since they had me doing jobs I wasn't even licensed to be doing...like having to stay with a special ed child all day when the teacher that's supposed to just wouldn't show up. I did it anyway because I felt bad if I would've left, but it was way too often that it happened. No matter what, though, I could only clock in for 30 hours.

This is another factor that always kept me from having kids. I couldn't afford it, I didn't have health care benefits, and if I had become pregnant at any point, I wouldn't have had a paid leave.