By Mohammed Al A’Ali
NEW privileges for female employees in the private sector will take centre stage during the Shura Council’s weekly session on Sunday.
These include reserving certain jobs for Bahrainis; plans to allow women to get two hours off work daily to care for their children until they reach the age of two; and treating women who have had a miscarriage or authorised emergency abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy or suffered a stillbirth treated on par with women who have undergone labour.
Parliament has approved all the three measures, but the Shura’s services committee has recommended rejecting them.
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