The government has said that it supports mourning holidays for couples that experience abortion.

Business Minister Justin Maders told the MPs that he “fully accepts” the principle of mourning leave for the loss of pregnancy and promised to add the right to the bill of employment rights.

Currently the staff are eligible for the mourning of the parents, if they or their partner are still included after 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Labor MP Sarah Owen, who presides over the Women and Equality Committee, is calling for the right to expand in matters where abortion occurs before 24 weeks.

Speaking at the House of Commons, Maders said: “Mourning is not a disease, it is not a holiday and requires its special category.”

He said: “I am grateful to the work of the Women and Equality Committee to increase the important issue of abortion leave.

“A child’s loss at any level is an incredibly difficult personal experience and the inquiry he has performed a clear difference in support for those who experience the loss of pregnancy and need time to recover and mourn.”

He said that Owen showed “great bravery” in speaking about his experience of abortion.

In 2021, Owen told the MPs that she felt physically better in a few days after her abortion, but there were “all classic signs” of grief.

“I couldn’t eat, I could not sleep. I really didn’t expect that life would ever be bright,” he said.

Owen and his committee have proposed a change in the employment rights bill which will ensure that the parents are mourned as a result of the loss of pregnancy, entitled to two weeks of leave.

During a debate on the bill on Tuesday, Maders said: “We fully accept the principle of mourning holidays for the loss of pregnancy, as raised in amendments, and we are ready to further discuss with (Owen) and (peers) as the bill moves forward in our next stages at Lord’s.”

Owen said she was “very happy” to hear the minister’s commitment.

He said that an introduction to a legal right to abortion would “be a leading light in a world that takes backward steps in women’s rights,” he said.

Vicky Robinson, CEO of the Abortion Association, said: “We are very happy to see that for the first time, those who experience a 24-week pregnancy loss will be recognized officially in the condolence holiday law.

“When we were demanding the paid holiday, and the current commitment seems to be for unpaid holiday, it still represents an important step and provides long -term verification that this type of damage can be experienced as mourning like another.”

The bill aims to strengthen the rights of workers in areas including unfair dismissal, flexible work and sick pay.

Opening the debate, Maders said it was a “historical bill” that would deal with “low salary, poor work status and poor job protection”.

Orthodox Chhaya Trade Minister Greg Smith said that he supported the government on mourning leave for the loss of pregnancy, but said that in the “vast majority” of the bill, the government had obtained a balance between the rights and employers between the rights and employers.

Smith has proposed several amendments in the bill, which will require the government to assess the impact on the measures being introduced.

Former Labor Minister Lewis High and Leb Dame MP Laila Moran have proposed an amendment that will ban non-recommendation agreements (NDAs) in matters of sexual misconduct, misconduct, oppression and discrimination in the workplace.

High, who Resigned Last year as the Transport Secretary, said: “NDA has a complete valid use in business to protect business privacy and trade.

“But when they are already suffering at work, they are often misused to silence people.”

Maders said that this was “an important issue that the warrant further considers” but was not committed to accept their amendment.

Stella Crace, Labor MPs for Walthamsto, are trying to amend the bill to provide greater protection for paternity or parents’ partner.

The bill currently gives workers the right to paternity from one day of their employment instead of the current 26 weeks.

Creasy amendment will force the government To review and consult on the duration of preserved paternity and parents’ partner, which is currently in two weeks.

He said that it was not long enough, saying that the “worst” paternity in Britain was the right to leave, which was throughout the European Union.

Maders said that the government would review the parents’ holiday system, which will be different from the bill.

Creasy’s amendment supported 81 MPs, including 50 labor backbenchers, but they did not push it on one vote.