Key Points
Australians get 18 weeks of paid maternity leave at the average pay rate of 42% of their former salary, which comes out to about 7.5 weeks of full-time pay...
In Costa Rica, which is not an OECD member country, mothers are guaranteed 17.3 weeks of fully-paid maternity leave...
The Czech Republic pays new mothers 62.6% of their salary for 28 weeks, making the equivalent time off with full-time pay 17.5 weeks.. 18 weeks is the average maternity leave in OECD countries..
This county in northeastern Europe grants mothers 18 weeks of maternity leave the OECD average paid at the rate of their full salary...
Mothers in the UK are allowed up to a whole year off for maternity leave, but only the first 39 weeks are paid at a rate of 30.9% of their former salary...
