UAE Business: ENBD raises benefits for female Emiratis in workforce – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: ENBD raises benefits for female Emiratis in workforce – Gulf Digital News

Emirates NBD (ENBD), a leading banking group in the region, aims to attract more women to its workforce, especially female UAE Nationals from the public sector by offering new, flexible work policies and initiatives.



This is aligned with its continued commitment to both the UAE Federal Government’s “NAFIS” initiative and the Emirati Human Resources Development Council in Dubai. The first of these flexible policies is being announced today, with the Group significantly expanding its family leave options. This includes doubling maternity and paternity leave and introducing new parental and adoptive leave options.



Mothers can now take four months of maternity leave, including 60 days of full pay, 30 days of half pay and 30 days of unpaid leave. Both mothers and fathers can take an additional, fully-paid week of parental leave. Paternity leave has increased from two days to five, in line with recent legislative changes. In addition, a new adoption leave policy gives Emirates NBD Group’s adoptive parents leave.



Eman Abdulrazzaq, Group Chief Human Resource Officer, Emirates NBD Group, said: “Emirates NBD Group now offers one of the most generous family leave policies amongst large, private UAE organizations. While these benefits are available to all employees, we are specifically targeting more female