BREASTFEEDING MOTHERS

Article 7 BREASTFEEDING MOTHERS

1. A Member whose economy and social

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security system are insufficiently developed

1. A woman shall be provided with the right shall be deemed to be in compliance with

to one or more daily breaks or a daily reduction Article 6, paragraphs 3 and 4, if cash benefits

of hours of work to breastfeed her child. are provided at a rate no lower than a rate

2. The period during which nursing breaks or payable for sickness or temporary disability in

the reduction of daily hours of work are allowed, accordance with national laws and regulations.

their number, the duration of nursing breaks

2. A Member which avails itself of the and the procedures for the reduction of daily possibility afforded in the preceding paragraph

hours of work shall be determined by national shall, in its first report on the application of this

law and practice. These breaks or the reduction Convention under article 22 of the Constitution

of daily hours of work shall be counted as of the International Labour Organization,

working time and remunerated accordingly. explain the reasons therefor and indicate the

PERIODIC REVIEW

rate at which cash benefits are provided. In its subsequent reports, the Member shall describe

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the measures taken with a view to progressively Each Member shall examine periodically, in raising the rate of benefits.

consultation

with the representative organizations of employers and workers, the

EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION

appropriateness of extending the period of

AND NON-DISCRIMINATION

leave referred to in Article 4 or of increasing the

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amount or the rate of the cash benefits referred

1. It shall be unlawful for an employer to

to in Article 6.

terminate the employment of a woman during

IMPLEMENTATION

her pregnancy or absence on leave referred to in Articles 4 or 5 or during a period following

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her return to work to be prescribed by national This Convention shall be implemented by laws or regulations, except on grounds

means of laws or regulations, except in so far unrelated to the pregnancy or birth of the child

as effect is given to it by other means such as and its consequences or nursing. The burden of

collective agreements, arbitration awards, court proving that the reasons for dismissal are

decisions, or in any other manner consistent unrelated to pregnancy or childbirth and its

with national practice. consequences or nursing shall rest on the

FINAL PROVISIONS

employer.

2. A woman is guaranteed the right to return

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to the same position or an equivalent position

Convention revises the Maternity paid at the same rate at the end of her

This

Protection Convention (Revised), 1952. maternity leave.

Building social protection systems

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attention of the Members of the Organization to The formal ratifications of this Convention shall

the date upon which the Convention shall come

be communicated to the Director-General of

into force.

the International Labour Office for registration.

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The Director-General of the International

1. This Convention shall be binding only upon Labour Office shall communicate to the those Members of the International Labour

Secretary-General of the United Nations, for Organization whose ratifications have been

registration in accordance with article 102 of registered with the Director-General of the

the Charter of the United Nations, full International Labour Office.

particulars of all ratifications and acts of

2. It shall come into force 12 months after denunciation registered by the Director-General the date on which the ratifications of two

in accordance with the provisions of the Members have been registered with the

preceding Articles. Director-General.

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3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into At such times as it may consider necessary, the force for any Member 12 months after the date

Governing Body of the International Labour on which its ratification has been registered.

Office shall present to the General Conference

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a report on the working of this Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing on the

1. A Member which has ratified this agenda of the Conference the question of its Convention may denounce it after the

revision in whole or in part. expiration of ten years from the date on which

the Convention first comes into force, by an act

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communicated to the Director-General of the

1. Should the Conference adopt a new International Labour Office for registration.

Convention revising this Convention in whole or Such denunciation shall not take effect until

in part, then, unless the new Convention one year after the date on which it is registered.

otherwise provides:

2. Each Member which has ratified this (a) the ratification by a Member of the new Convention and which does not, within the year

revising Convention shall ipso jure involve following the expiration of the period of ten

the immediate denunciation of this years mentioned in the preceding paragraph,

Convention, notwithstanding the provisions exercise the right of denunciation provided for

of Article 16 above, if and when the new in this Article, will be bound for another period

revising Convention shall have come into of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this

force;

Convention at the expiration of each period of (b) as from the date when the new revising ten years under the terms provided for in this

Article.

Convention

comes into force, this Convention shall cease to be open to

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ratification by the Members.

2. This Convention shall in any case remain Labour Office shall notify all Members of the

1. The Director-General of the International

in force in its actual form and content for those International Labour Organization of the

Members which have ratified it but have not registration of all ratifications and acts of

ratified the revising Convention. denunciation communicated by the Members

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of the Organization. The English and French versions of the text of

2. When notifying the Members of the this Convention are equally authoritative. Organization of the registration of the second ratification, the Director-General shall draw the

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