New maternity leave bill
PA Wellington A new deal for working women who bear children is proposed in a bill which will be introduced in Parliament this year. The Maternity Leave and Employment Protection Bill allows for six months unpaid maternity leave, with employment protected during that leave. Its provisions were announced yesterday by the chairman of the National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women (Mrs Elizabeth Orr) when she released the council’s annual report; She said that the bill would also provide for personal grievance proceedings >
where a woman felt she had been illegally dismissed or had other complaints about her maternity leave. “A Maternity Leave Act will be an important step towards equal opportunity, but the council believes that additional action will be needed in future,” she said. The council hoped that the provisions in the bill, if it was enacted, would be used as minimum standards only, and that when employee groups were discussng their awards and industrial agreements, they would negotiate higher standards of protection. It would be better if parental leave, not just maternity leave, cpuld be incorporated, said Mrs Orr.
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