TUC slams Godfrey Bloom over maternity rights comments

date: 29 April 2013

embargo: For immediate release

Responding to comments made by UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom, who told Radio Five Live's John Pienaar programme that women of a child bearing age shouldn't be employed because maternity rights are too 'draconian', TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said:

'Godfrey Bloom should know better than to encourage employers to break the law. Maternity rights are neither draconian nor political correctness gone mad - they are elementary justice for working mothers.'

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