Santander to offer 14 weeks of full pay for new mothers to boost women's careers

Spanish banking group Santander is introducing a new parental leave policy, offering mothers at least 14 weeks of paid leave and secondary parents a minimum of four weeks.  Although the new parental leave scheme will apply to all new parents working for the Group across the different geographies where it is present, it will suppose an improvement just for the firm's employees of eight countries.  The new policy will lead to an increase in maternity leave for Santander employees in Argentina, Mexico and the US. In the case of secondary parent leave, employees of Santander in Brazil, Ch...