A VETERAN social security specialist believes that not enough women are fighting for their rights.
Stephen Strickland, a retired officer at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), wants women’s rights champions to speak out more on matters that really matter.
Case in point, maternity leave and maternity grants. Although he didn’t state it, Strickland suggested that the awarding of maternity grants may be imposed strictly on the basis of morality.
Speaking on the topic NIS – More Than A Contribution, It’s Your Life Line, at the weekly Astor B. Watts Lunchtime Lecture at the Democratic Labour Party’s headquarters, George Street, St Michael, yesterday, he explained that as it stood a maternity grant is paid where the mother of the child is not working and she is making a case on the father of the child. (SDB Media)Â
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