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Swiss voters on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected the introduction of maternity benefit, leaving Switzerland the only country in western Europe where women are not legally entitled to maternity leave and financial support. Just over 60 percent of voters were against a proposal to guarantee maternity leave of 14 weeks at 80 percent of a woman’s salary.…
Maternity leave programme likely rejected by Swiss voters
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Swiss voters on Sunday appeared to have rejected the introduction of maternity benefit, which would have brought Switzerland in line with Europe by introducing maternity leave of 14 weeks at 80 percent of a woman’s salary. Voting projections made shortly after polls closed earlier Sunday showed that the maternity leave proposal would be defeated soundly…
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Although support for maternity benefit was written into the Swiss constitution back in 1945, an agreement on what sort of benefit should be introduced was never reached. Now the Swiss government has put forward a generous proposal: 14 weeks paid leave for working mothers, and a sliding scale of payments for mothers who stay home.…
