New maternity leave law in Rwanda empowers women
Source:
Pangea Today
Rwanda’s government has approved a popular maternity protection bill granting working mothers three months leave with full pay while caring for their newborns.
Parents have been pressing President Paul Kagame’s administration to revise the previous law under which mothers only received full salary during the first half of maternity leave, but were required to either return to work or surrender 80 percent of their salary for the second half.