Australia does not have legislation providing for paid maternity leave, and according to the report, only 38 per cent of women workers have access to paid maternity leave (para.

Australia does not have legislation providing for paid maternity leave, and according to the report, only 38 per cent of women workers have access to paid maternity leave (para.

Maternity leave

Paid maternity leave is available to many Australian women employees, particularly in the public sector.

The Gambia was well ahead of the developed world when it came to maternity leave for many years pregnant women had benefited from three months' paid maternity leave.

The Act also provides for paid maternity leave, prohibits the dismissal of women during maternity leave and further provides for breastfeeding time and the establishment of children's crèches.

The Act also provides for paid maternity leave, prohibits the dismissal of women during maternity leave and further provides for breastfeeding time and the establishment of children's crèches.

Maternity Leave Entitlements

9.2.2 Maternity leave

In RS, the system of paid maternity leave is organized so that it is paid at the expense of the Child protection fund. Non payment of maternity leave is a serious offence and is penalized by a monetary fine.

45 per cent of all female employees are entitled to paid maternity leave as of November 2004

Pregnancy and Maternity Leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Maternity leave from work

Please indicate what options are presently being considered to institute paid maternity leave across all states and territories in Australia.

Please indicate what options are presently being considered to institute paid maternity leave across all states and territories in Australia.

During the International Year of the Family, paid maternity leave would become one of the major issues for public debate.

Rule 106.3 Maternity and paternity leave

Rule 206.7 Maternity and paternity leave

The representative explained that women were paid while on maternity leave, they did return to the same job after such leave, and they had job security.

Maternity leave cannot be distributed between parents.

(e) Annual leave shall accrue during the period of maternity leave.

The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data show that 45 per cent of female employees in Australia are entitled to paid maternity leave.

308. Asked whether government policy guaranteed maternity leave to women, the representative confirmed that, in the Government and formal sector, women were allowed to take paid maternity leave for three months twice during their period of service (up to the age of 57).

349. Concerning maternity leave for employed women and family benefits for women, the representative stated that women were entitled to three months of paid maternity leave after two years of service and at intervals of two years according to the Employment Act.

(e) Annual leave shall accrue during the period of maternity or paternity leave.

(e) Annual leave shall accrue during the period of maternity or paternity leave.

Women are entitled to maternity insurance, which includes a hospitalization grant, a maternity grant, a birth allowance and a maternity leave allowance.

125. Information was sought on whether women were entitled to maternity leave and whether they had the security of keeping their job after maternity leave.

66. Asked for a further explanation of what seemed to be a discrepancy between the status of working mothers in the private and the State sectors with regard to maternity leave, the representative said that women working in the State sector had guaranteed paid maternity leave.

Provisions regarding sexual harassment in the workplace and part time work had been included for the first time, and the duration of paid maternity leave increased.

The resistance to paid maternity leave came from many sides there was no consensus on the issue even among women apos s organizations and trade unions.

In 2003, 15,900 women were absent due to maternity leave.

Indeed the provisions relating to maternity leave are quite generous.

The employee can in fact request additional leave, utilizing her earned leave and combining it with her maternity leave.

Maternity benefit Under the Law On Maternity and Sickness Insurance of 6 November 1995 a person, upon leaving for the maternity leave, is granted a state social insurance benefit the maternity benefit.

Rule 206.7, Maternity leave, is retitled Maternity and paternity leave, and subparagraphs (b) and (e) are amended to reflect the new entitlement to paternity leave, as approved by General Assembly resolution 59 268.

NON DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF MARRIAGE, PREGNANCY AND MATERNITY LEAVE

During the pregnancy and maternity leave, women are paid a compensation for temporary incapacity for work in the amount of 100 of average income per one calendar day.

21. A wide gamut of rights to maternity care, i.e., the care of expectant and nursing mothers, has also been developed, ranging from paid maternity leave to specific forms of care provided to working mothers at their place of work.

Ms. Tavares da Silva asked how women managed in the absence of any paid maternity leave perhaps they took sick leave but she stressed that maternity was a basic social function, not a sickness, which required that women receive special treatment, including protection against dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy.

Paid killers never leave any signs.

The Committee had difficulty in fully understanding the reservation on maternity leave.

The proposal amount will provide for the replacement of locally recruited staff maternity leave and extended sick leave.

Rule 106.3, Maternity leave, is retitled Maternity and paternity leave, and subparagraphs (b) and (e) are amended to reflect the new entitlement to paternity leave, as approved by General Assembly resolution 59 268 of 23 December 2004.