The 2019 Expanded Maternity Leave Law_A Law Whose Progressive Potential Has Yet To Be Fully Realized
This study comes at a time when, even before the pandemic, many Filipino women were employed in precarious and low-wage work environment, often with inadequate or no access to social protection. While the Philippines provides a set of maternity benefit packages, including a 60-day paid maternity leave, the latter was viewed as problematic—too short and …