Indeed the provisions relating to maternity leave are quite generous.

Sexual harassment in the workplace was a Western concept that did not exist in the Gambia, so there were no laws that dealt with it.

Additional paid annual leave of 6 days for widowed parents or single parent families.

During pregnancy, delivery and childcare, each woman has a right to one year of undisturbed maternity leave.

Staff members appointed under the 100 series Staff Rules shall not be entitled to the first home leave until they have fulfilled the requirement of the period of probationary service.

Unemployed people would take the place of those on leave, who, for their part, would receive 70 of the unemployment benefit they would get if they lost their jobs (typically, 90 of one s salary).

Ministerial regulation No. 3 of 1989 provides female workers to be reinstated to their same position, status and labor rights after taking maternity leave.

It is one thing to borrow to make an investment, which strengthens balance sheets it is another thing to borrow to finance a vacation or a consumption binge.

Laws on customs violations, procedures for indirect taxation, the Indirect Taxation Authority itself and procedures for enforcing payments had not yet been passed by the Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliament during the period under review.

Compassionate Care Leave has been introduced, allowing for up to eight weeks to allow an employee to care for a critically ill person in a close family relationship.

11.20 The Public Service Staff Manual is more specific in its provisions for maternity leave and states that a female permanent officer shall be entitled to 12 weeks maternity leave on full pay.

The Labour Law provided for the right for the father of a child to use maternity leave on the death of a mother, in case a mother abandoned a child or is otherwise prevented from using this right.

Farmers can also apply for financial support for partial compensation of the expenses for farm relief services to hire farm relief employees to relieve the agricultural producers of their duties during a vacation for up to 28 days.

But this is what Alan Greenspan encouraged Americans to do. When normal mortgages did not prime the pump enough, he encouraged them to take out variable rate mortgages at a time when interest rates had nowhere to go but up.

However, some women are not in a position to breast feed their children on premises either because they are not aware of their nursing leave entitlements or because their employers are not allowing them time to do so.

Such leave, referred to in the Staff Regulations and the Staff Rules as home leave, is granted to eligible staff members for the purpose of enabling them to maintain effective association with the culture of their home country, to keep up their professional interests and to renew their family and personal ties therein.

Amendments were made to The Labour Standards Act effective June 14, 2001, increasing parental leave provisions and providing Saskatchewan workers with job protection to allow them to take full advantage of the benefits offered by the Government of Canada's Employment Insurance Program.

With regard to maternity leave, she said that the public sector conditions served as a benchmark and efforts were being made to extend the same level of benefits to the private sector the new employment law would include definition of grounds for termination, including illegal grounds such as pregnancy.

(m) With respect to home leave authorized for eligible staff members who serve at a 12 or 24 month home leave duty station, travel may be authorized to a country other than the home country for security reasons under conditions to be established by the Director General.

Given that working conditions were generally better in the public sector than the private sector, for example with regard to maternity leave, she wondered whether the Government was making any effort to improve the working conditions of women in the private sector.

The experts making the analysis have concluded that with the provisions contained in the 1993 Law on Labor Relations greater compatibility is attained with the EU legislation in this area (or more specifically with Directive No. 92 85 and the Framework Agreement on Parental Leave).

(m) (k) With respect to home leave authorized under the provisions of paragraph (l) (j) above, while every second such leave must be spent in the home country, a staff member may travel on alternate home leave to a country other than his or her home country.

11.19 In the only study carried out to find general level of awareness of s36 of the Employment Act by female employees in Port Vila, it was found that they were aware of the general maternity provisions but they were not fully aware of their nursing leave entitlements as shown in Figure 12.