Increasing maternity leave and implementing support measures for small businesses will encourage more women to work again.

Malta offers the least maternity leave when compared to other EU countries - only 14 weeks, Alternattiva Demokratika chairman Arnold Cassola said yesterday.

The Nationalist government opposed the positive EU proposal to increase maternity leave to 24 weeks, he noted.

"I hope that voters will be aware of where the political groups truly stand on family issues when they vote next month," he said.

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