Starting next year, Total Access Communication (Dtac)'s employees will be able to take a six-month paid maternity leave. The same benefit will also be available to female employees working for Telenor's units in other 12 markets.
Notably, the six-month period is above the legal three-month requirement in Thailand and India. The six-month paid maternity leave has been a policy of Norway's Telenor, a major shareholder of the Thai telecom company. It is also now applying this as a global policy for all 13 markets.