Ondo Extends Maternity Leave For Civil Servants To Six Months

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The Ondo State Government on Wednesday extended the maternity leave period for its female workers from the earlier three months to six months.

The government said the move was to build a society where children that were being raised had all things required in terms of maternal care, which should be exclusive in the first six months.

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The state Head of Service, Pastor Kayode Ogundele, disclosed this while receiving members of the Federation of Women Lawyers, Ondo State Chapter, in his office in Akure, the state capital.

Ogundele explained that, “Apart from adequate care mothers would be able to give their new-born babies during the leave period, such mothers would be more focused and productive when they resume work as all the initial child-raising challenges would have been addressed sufficiently during the leave period.”

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