Glenn's Paradise

It shows that how generous the government announced this news in the headline in most of the paper this morning. Personally, I really feel disappointed with this decision as it only applied to government servants. Most of the women are working in private sectors and we need to care our baby growing up as well. It is impossible asking the private sectors to follow this policy as 5 years is really ridiculous and too long.
Most of households require income from both parents; hence the benefit alone is insufficient to address the basic needs of mothers and young children or to support a family. Therefore, I do not think that this policy is making sense.
All we need is a longer paid maternity leave as recommended by the International Labour Organisation, which is 14 weeks. Mothers in Malaysia are given only eight weeks' paid maternity leave. This has been highlight in the pass 5 years but until today there is no news on it. In fact, 8 weeks’ paid maternity leave in Malaysia was far behind other countries like Sweden (14 weeks), Singapore (12 weeks) and Hong Kong (10 weeks). Why our government can’t just follow the norm rather than practicing something special and not logic?