Eligible female employees can apply for additional two months' leave with half-pay, and another six months' leave without pay on top of the existing 16 weeks of maternity leave with full pay. Given that women comprise 60% of the bank's workforce, this enhancement "will hopefully help them to ease into parenthood, and give them time to find a good balance between their family and work commitments by the time they return," said Wong Keng Fye, Maybank Singapore's head of human capital as quoted by Today Online.