The Enugu State Government has amended its Civil Service rules to grant six months maternity leave to nursing mothers.
Interestingly, husbands whose wives
might put to bed were also given a......
‘paternity leave’, but it would only
be for just three weeks.
The paternity leave was meant to give
such husbands the opportunity to support their nursing wives, according
to the state government.
Before, female workers who gave birth
were entitled to three months maternity leave while the men whose wives
delivered babies were not exempted from work.
Similarly, the state government also
resolved that henceforth, nursing mothers were free to breast-feed their
babies in offices during work hours.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr.
Sam Ngwu, who disclosed these in Enugu on Wednesday, said the new policy
would strengthen the family as a social unit and also promote mother
and child welfare.
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