Lesotho: Female Factory Workers’ in Outcry Over Unpaid Maternity Leave

TRADE unions are disgruntled that government continues to discriminate against women working in the textile and private security sectors when it comes to maternity leave payment.

Through a legal notice published last month, the government continues to afford women working in the textile and private security sectors 12-week maternity leave of which only six weeks is paid.

Ironically, their counterparts working in other sectors and those under government employment are afforded 12 weeks of paid…