Currently, a female employee is entitled to three months fully-paid maternity leave on top of their statutory annual leave.
Proponents of maternity policy terms reckon it helps in the recruitment and retention of women at the work place.
Working mothers could spend at least six months with their newborns, if an amendment to the Employment Act that seeks to increase maternity leave, is adopted.
Buuri MP Kinoti Gatobu is proposing the law to provide for an option to extend maternity leave by another three months without pay.
