Date published: 2008/07/14
The BBC says:
The extension of maternity leave may be sabotaging women's careers, the head of the new equality watchdog has warned.
Nicola Brewer, chief executive of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, said employers were thinking twice about offering them jobs or promotion.
This, she said in an interview with The Times, was because women were now entitled to a year off for each child.
She said current laws had unintentionally made "women a less attractive prospect to employers".
Who would have thought it? You make yourself (in effect) more expensive to hire, so it's trivially obvious you make yourself less attractive to an employer. But to describe this as an "unintentional" side effect of the law is not credible. Anybody with half a brain would have figured that one out ahead of time.
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