Pre Post Natal Services Delivery Rooms and Maternity Wards

Maternity leave

Maternity Insurance

Protection of maternity and prevention of discrimination against women based on maternity

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

Maternity Leave Entitlements

9.2.2 Maternity leave

The West Pakistan Maternity Benefit Ordinance, 1958. The West Pakistan Maternity Benefits Rules, 1961.

Pregnancy and Maternity Leave

Maternity and paternity leave

The following statutory provisions exist in the area of maternity benefits The Mines Maternity Benefit Act, 1941 the West Pakistan Maternity Benefit Ordinance, 1958 the West Pakistan Maternity Benefits Rules, 1965 and the Provincial Employees Social Security Ordinance, 1965.

The law recognizes the importance of maternity as a social function and provides generous maternity provisions.

Nicaraguan legislation includes maternity protection.

Special measures to protect maternity

Convention No. 3 Maternity benefits.

Maternity hospitals and women's counselling services have special family training schools, where the future parents are counselled and where they can go also after the child is born.

Special Measures Aimed at Protecting Maternity

Special Measures to Protect Maternity (4.2)

Rule 106.3 Maternity and paternity leave

Rule 206.7 Maternity and paternity leave

Maternity leave cannot be distributed between parents.

14 neighbourhood maternity homes, 4 maternity reference units and 3 specialized centres (tuberculosis centre, leprosy centre and reproductive health centre at Niamey)

Protecting maternity and facilitating workers with family responsibilities

Cash benefits for maternity are also paid to all working mothers who are not entitled to maternity benefits from an insurance fund or are uninsured.

States parties also should ensure the development of institutions, facilities and services for the care of children and take all appropriate measures to ensure that children of working parents have the right to benefit from childcare services, maternity protection and facilities for which they are eligible.

Women workers are of course entitled to maternity benefits.

1 maternity home for 24,505 women of childbearing age

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

Indeed the provisions relating to maternity leave are quite generous.

She is not likely to get any maternity benefits etc.

Two new pieces of legislation address the issue of maternity.

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.

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.

Midwives provide maternity care from early pregnancy to 6 weeks postpartum.

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

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

It provides for sickness and maternity benefits, as well as pensions.

reimbursement of salary for the time of maternity and extended maternity leave and for the employed parents' or person who adopted (adopter's ) absence from work for the purpose of child care,

ILO Convention No. 103 concerning Maternity Protection, of 28 June 1952 (1993)

Working women received special care during maternity and in retirement, and Viet Nam was one of the countries that allowed a longer period of maternity leave than the minimum stipulated by ILO.

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.

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.

An example is the Ordinance amending the Mines Maternity Benefits Act, 1941 in order to increase the rate of maternity benefit to the rate equivalent to the last pay drawn by the worker.

The State provides special protection to mothers and children through maternity leave, shortened working hours for mothers of large families, increasing the network of maternity hospitals, pre schools and kindergartens and other measures.