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 .