EU row over 20-week maternity pay

THE European Union has been indicted of nosiness in maternity process after MEPs corroborated an EU-wide prolongation of maternity leave to twenty weeks – all of it on full pay. The move was cursed as a large additional weight on British commercial operation if it became law – and a �2 billion-a-year additional headache for the Treasury. The opinion in the European Parliaments Womens Rights Committee yesterday exceeded the European CommissionADVERTISEMENTs argumentative offer for eighteen weeks" maternity leave on full pay.Current UK manners give profound women a full year off, with only 6 weeks paid at 90 per cent of the mothers normal pay, followed by 33 weeks on Statutory Maternity Pay of �123 a week – 55 per cent higher than ill pay. The rest is unpaid. Under existent EU manners concluded in 1992, smallest maternity leave is set at fourteen weeks, with compensate for the generation to be no reduce than illness compensate in the part of state concerned.The British Chambers of Commerce pronounced the opinion contingency be overturned possibly by the full European Parliament or by EU supervision ministers.• MEPs have voted to revive a European anathema on the sale of scarcely made ripened offspring and veg.The much-condemned anathema was carried by the European Commission last July, finale food rubbish by slicing red fasten surrounding the figure and unity of uninformed produce. The move additionally cut sell prices by as most as 40 per cent.But Spanish MEPs tabled a plan to move the anathema back, and yesterday they won the await of a infancy on the European Parliaments cultivation committee. The issue right away goes to the full council for a vote, nonetheless it is doubtful to be approved.
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