Mumsnet need your opinions for Jeremy Vine show today!

[carriemumsnet]

Hi we've been asked to go on the Jeremy Vine show today to discuss Harriet Harman's proposals to give parents paid time off to look after their children if they are sick.

We know you'll have some views on this, so over to you.

Would this encourage you to go back to work?

where i used t work it was at the discretion of the manager, and who elses' business is it. if you are trying to work you shoud be applauded for trying.

custardo

Sorry I didn't mean to offend

I don't work so I was just thinking hypothetically

WhatI meant by backlash was the view posted on here that firms wouldn't employ parents. Perhaps I should have expressed that more clearly.

On a slightly more abstract note: I am quite disappointed about the extent to which people believe that ill people, pregnant women, carers and anybody else needing time off should be consigned to the employment scrapheap. Threads like this really bring those attitudes out. It really is survival of the fittest, isn't it? Let's hope that none of our "why should business / taxpayers pay" posters ever get diagnosed with a chronic disease that needs regular hospital treatment. Although judging by some pof the posts on here, they would happily go to the wall to avoid causing unnecessary suffering for employers / taxpayer/ colleagues...

Well argued Carrie!

telly lady you kangaroo silly person - please dont take anything i say to heart. i love you - you tell me whats on telly. please toughen up to my ill concieved and badly written porly spelt and gramatically piss poor posts.

yes, her bark is worse than her bite

i started a new job and for 3 weeks in a row i had a child ill. but it only happens touchwood occasionaly, it is not evey week and i bet workingparents are less ill than not parents, they have to be fit for their children

custardo

oke doke

Thanks

When is the programme on, what channel?

They've already been on - its on Radio 2. You can listen to it though if you go to the Website.