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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dave Burke

Joy as new law to protect jobs of pregnant women and new parents backed

A new law giving extra job protection to pregnant women and new parents has cleared the Commons after being put forward by a Labour MP.

Dan Jarvis told MPs they had a "precious opportunity within our grasp to make a real difference to over 50,000 pregnant women and new parents each year".

His bill - which will provide extra protection to women during and after pregnancy, as well as measures to support new dads - passed unopposed.

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