LONDON, July 28 (UPI) — A senior adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested abolishing maternity leave in the country to cut bureaucracy and foster economic growth.
But Steve Hilton’s “blue-sky thinking” idea has no chance of being introduced, Downing Street sources told The Daily Telegraph.
The newspaper had reported this week impatience over the Treasury’s failure to devise creative policies to strengthen the economy.
Hilton called maternity leave, which gives women up to a year off work, “the biggest obstacle to women finding work,” a source told the Telegraph.
Cameron has been a strong advocate of the maternity leave policy.
Hilton, who is playing a key role in the effort to boost business and employment, is known for radical ideas.
Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported Hilton has also recommended firing hundreds of government press officers and replacing them with a blog for each Whitehall department.
The source also said Hilton wanted to suspend all consumer rights legislation for nine months “to see what would happen.”
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