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Wife: give me maternity leave a month on my husband
Reporters sinar harian
March 25 2017
Kuala Lumpur – Congress workers union Malaysia (Mtuc) suggested maternity leave husband or father for granted for a month to government and private employees with a salary paid in full.
Secretary Saving Grace, J. Solomon said, leave the existing allocated to employees at the moment still not enough.
According to reports, when astro awani, maternity leave this to a husband or father is for seven days to staff, while the government holiday courtesy of private employees depending on their respective employers.
” I think it’s time for us thorough paternity leave because of what we see time now for public services they got seven days, sometimes there are state and in two weeks private if her preferences for five days or less, and there are many private company Don’t give a chance in the presence of the father while the child was born,” he said.
Recommendations that specified follow up most cases involving pospartum psychosis or postpartum depression, which faced those mothers after childbirth.
He thinks my husband should be granted a leave of absence to take care of your wife and children with better and dealing with the emotional changes a woman after childbirth.
” we don’t want an incident like what happened to those mothers maternity after recently who acts killed her baby for reliable result pospartum psychosis. Let us not let more who died our new to act something,” ujar soloman.
In Light of that, he said again, the kingdom was asked to create a relevant legislation to ensure that maternity leave for a husband or father with full payroll enforced in act apply.
” when it is, no allocation in any act which include-paid parental leave for father. In fact, work act 1955 also not touching about paternity leave it.
” so the government should create legislation related to an institution for the construction of a family,” he said again.
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