U.S. moms looking at 6 weeks of unpaid maternity leave will have to pinch themselves when they read about the U.K.'s proposed changes to their current 9-month, partly paid government guaranteed maternity leave.
After complaints that such a long maternity leave shortchanges fathers
and potentially makes women of childbearing age less appealing to
employers, while the small percentage of pay made it difficult for
families with low incomes to take the leave, some changes have been
proposed.The new plan would give mothers
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