Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Phnom Penh (VNA) – The Government of Cambodia will provide bonusesto female civil servants and armed force personnel when they deliver theirbabies, starting from January 2018.
Mothers giving birth to one child will receive 200 USD, while mothers of a twinwill get 400 USD and mothers with a triplet will get 600 USD, Cambodian PrimeMinister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on October 9.
The country will spend about 2.1 million USD a year on the programme.
Cambodia has 92,198 female civil servants and armed forces personnel, with10,844, or 11.7 percent, of them having babies each year.
Last month, the PM announced to offer bonuses to workers in the garment and footwearsectors when they have babies, beginning from January next year.
Mothers giving birth to one child will receive 100 USD, while mothers of a twinwill receive 200 USD and triplet mothers will get 300 USD.
The government plans to spend about 10 million USD a year on pregnant labourersbecause there are about 900,000 female workers working in the sectors with apregnancy rate of 2.7 percent, or 24,000 workers, each year, he said.
The bonuses will be paid through the National Social Security Fund.
This is a new policy on social welfare that is carried out by the CambodianPeople's Party-led government, Hun Sen said.-VNA
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