{"id":2257,"date":"2017-03-24T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2017-03-24T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:03:12","slug":"call-decently-paid-maternity-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2017\/03\/24\/call-decently-paid-maternity-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for &#8216;decently paid&#8217; maternity leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/03\/95294091_newmum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2245\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/03\/95294091_newmum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Statutory maternity pay for UK mothers is among the worst in Europe, according to an analysis by the TUC.<\/p>\n<p>The trade union body says only Ireland and Slovakia have worse &#8220;decently paid&#8221; entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>It defines decently paid as two-thirds of a woman&#8217;s salary or more than \u00a3840 a month.<\/p>\n<p>The government said the UK&#8217;s maternity system was one of the most generous in the world and most mothers could take up to 39 weeks of guaranteed pay.<\/p>\n<p>That was nearly three times the EU minimum requirement of 14 weeks, a statement said. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-39373335#\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statutory maternity pay for UK mothers is among the worst in Europe, according to an analysis by the TUC. The trade union body says only Ireland and Slovakia have worse &#8220;decently paid&#8221; entitlements. It defines &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}