New Zealand Approves <br />Paid Leave After Miscarriage.<br />Employers in New Zealand will <br />now be required to give couples <br />who suffer a miscarriage<br />three days of paid leave.<br />The country’s parliament unanimously <br />approved the legislation on Wednesday.<br />New Zealand had already been <br />required to provide paid leave <br />after stillbirths, which is when <br />a fetus is lost after 20 weeks.<br />Ginny Andersen, a Labour member of <br />Parliament who drafted the bill, said it <br />is the first of its kind in the world.<br />I felt that it would give women <br />the confidence to be able to <br />request that leave.., Ginny Andersen, via ‘The New York Times’.<br />... when they knew that they needed <br />time ... to get over the grief, Ginny Andersen, via ‘The New York Times’
