Hewitt hints at one year's maternity pay

New mothers are to be given one year's paid leave in a cash incentive designed to promote work-life balance and woo back women and young families to the Labour Party. The proposals for enhanced maternity leave will be a main Labour election promise.

Patricia Hewitt, the Trade and Industry Secretary, said that boosting maternity pay would be a "high priority for the Government" in a third term. Ms Hewitt is also examining proposals to increase paternity pay and offer new fathers two weeks' pa... (132 more words)

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