Maternity leave ‘damages career’
LONGER maternity leave is in danger of sabotaging women’s careers, the head of the new equality watchdog warned today.
With women now entitled to a year off for each child, Nicola Brewer, the chief executive of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, said employers were thinking twice about offering them jobs or promotion.
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