{"id":6659,"date":"2010-07-02T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T06:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2010-07-02T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T06:31:52","slug":"90-days-maternity-leave-by-hsbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/07\/02\/90-days-maternity-leave-by-hsbc\/","title":{"rendered":"90 days maternity leave by HSBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/135581\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this is a sign <\/strong><\/a>of more good news from both private and public sector!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) campaign for a 90-day paid maternity leave saw its first major success, with HSBC Bank Malaysia accepting the proposal.<br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>NUBE secretary-general J Solomon hailed the achievement a &#8220;milestone&#8221; after signing an agreement with HSBC Bank Malaysia today. The bank was represented by its deputy chief executive officer, Jon Addis.<br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>He told <em>Bernama<\/em> that the campaign on March 8 hoped to collect a million signatures by National Day. <br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>It had, so far, garnered over 500,000 signatures, including that of the prime minister&#8217;s wife, Rosmah Mansor.<br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>Solomon (<em>left<\/em>) said the longer maternity break would create a conducive environment for working mothers.<br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>Addis said that previously, the bank had provided a 60-day paid maternity leave, adding that the additional 30 days would allow the mothers more time to care for and bond with their new-born.<br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>Solomon hoped that more employers, not just those in the banking sector but others as well, would emulate this example.<br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>NUBE represents 30,000 bank workers in the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully this is a sign of more good news from both private and public sector! The National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) campaign for a 90-day paid maternity leave saw its first major success, with HSBC Bank Malaysia accepting the proposal.NUBE secretary-general J Solomon hailed the achievement a &#8220;milestone&#8221; after signing an agreement with HSBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}