Britain trails most of Europe on maternity pay, says TUC

Women in UK get six weeks of ‘decently paid leave’, and only Ireland and Slovakia have a worse deal Britain is near the bottom of the European league for paid maternity leave, while Croatia, Hungary and the Czech Republic offer the most generous deals to female workers, according to the TUC.
New mothers in the UK receive six weeks of what the TUC calls “decently paid maternity leave” – which it defines as two-thirds or more of previous earnings. Women in the UK are