Are you an employed worker and you are pregnant? You are on maternity leave which includes a period before you give birth (said prenatal leave) and a period after your delivery (said postnatal leave).

We also list the pros and cons for both NHS and private maternity services and explain what you might expect to pay if you choose private care. You might not get the birth you want The NHS will try to ...

The only private maternity ward on the New South Wales Central Coast will end birth services on March 31, 2025. The closure will leave the public hospital in Gosford as the only birthing hospital ...

The benefits are available to biological, adoptive, or legally recognized parents at a weekly benefit rate of 33% of the claimant’s average weekly insurable earnings up to a maximum amount eligible ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Families have been devastated by the decision to close the Central Coast’s only private maternity unit amid a staffing crisis in ...

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French authorities have launched a desperate search for a 17-day-old prematurely born baby boy who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris hospital. Police in Seine-Saint-Denis ...

A review into maternity services sparked by the death of a baby has recommended an overhaul of the system in Northern Ireland. Report author Prof Mary Renfrew identified "both serious weaknesses ...

The tribunal ruled in Ms Twitchen's favour, finding First Grade Projects liable for unfair dismissal A woman in the UK who was fired from her job when she came back from maternity leave pregnant ...

A boss fired one of his employees when she came back from maternity leave pregnant again. Nikita Twitchen was preparing to return to her office administration assistant at First Grade Projects ...

Nikita Twitchen told an employment tribunal her back to work meeting with managing director Jeremy Morgan ‘started positively’ (Picture: Getty/Media Wales) A mum who lost her job when she ...

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers has switched maternity hospitals from Ascension's premier Milwaukee hospital to an Aurora hospital, in a blow to the Ascension hospital with the fourth ...