The Family Courts Act, 1964 provides for constitution of Special Family Courts to adjudicate family cases e.g. divorce, maintenance and custody of children, etc.

Maternity Leave Entitlements

Maternity and paternity leave

Rule 106.3 Maternity and paternity leave

9.2.2 Maternity leave

(b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances

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.

Maternity leave cannot be distributed between parents.

Maternity leaves with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances.

While on maternity leave, the employee has the right to compensation of salary. In Republika Srpska the compensation is calculated to be the average

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

(b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances

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.

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

(b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances

(b) to introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances

The payment recognizes the extra costs associated with the birth or adoption of a child, including loss of income while on unpaid maternity leave.

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

Benefits for pregnancy and childbirth amount to the full monthly wage for the entire period of maternity leave given to the woman (article 218 of the Labour Code).

All the discussions about flexi time or dress down Fridays or paternity leave only serve to mask the core issue, which is that certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day to day basis with a young family.

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

Articles 8 (maternity leave) and 11 (rights pertaining to the employment agreement) are replaced.

(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 employees in the informal sector do not have a statutory right to maternity leave.

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

Regulations in the field of child protection govern maternity leave, and are implemented through health insurance.

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.

In the Syrian Arab Republic, there is no legislation on paternity leave, which is non existent, and nor is a couple able to divide maternity leave between them.

This law does not foresee the possibility of having parents share the maternity leave amongst them.

137 of the Employment Act). In both the public and private sectors, the employer shoulders the cost of the maternity leave.

Article 26 of the law on labour in the Republic of Kazakhstan prohibits dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave.

However, in 2003 and 2004, of the peacekeeping cases, 75 per cent and 54 per cent respectively came from staff members serving in missions.

At the end of maternity leave, if a woman wishes so, she may be given child care leave until the child reaches the age of one and a half, with an allowance paid over that period of time.

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.

Under Article 5(k) of the Constitution the affirmative provision of maternity leave entitlement is not considered discriminatory.

Maternity leave can be granted in continuation of or in combination with any other kind of leave including extra ordinary leave as may be due and admissible to female civil servants.

The State Employment Statute, however, makes no provision for the right of female agency workers to benefit from maternity leave, pilgrimage leave or compulsory holidays.

It proposes increasing child care leave without pay to three years from one and a half.

The majority of women returned to the same or a comparable position of employment following maternity leave.

Maternity leave does not entail loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances.

Teachers, as well, who were single mothers or became pregnant were protected by the legislation on the rights of teachers, which granted them, at all levels of education, six weeks of paid maternity leave before and after birth and special nursing and rest privileges.

right of woman to start working before the expiration of maternity leave, and right of woman to additional leave beside the daily rest lasting for 60 munutes for breastfeeding the baby

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