Activities of Emine BOZKURT related to 2008/0193(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding - Precarious women workers (debate)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1 a (new)
Article 1 – point 1 a (new)
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 a (new)
Article 8 a (new)
1a. The following Article 8a shall be inserted: "Article 8a Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that a worker whose life-partner has recently given birth is entitled to a continuous period of non- transferable fully paid paternity/co- maternity leave of at least four weeks, of which two weeks are compulsory, to be taken before or after the confinement of the spouse or partner."
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 10 – point 1
Article 10 – point 1
1. The Member States shall take the necessary measures to prohibit the dismissal and all preparations for a dismissal of workers within the meaning of Article 2 during the period from the beginning of their pregnancy to the end of the maternity leave provided for in Article 8(1), save in exceptional cases not connected with their condition which are duly substantiated in writing and which are permitted under national legislation and/or practice and, where applicable, provided that the competent authority has given its consent.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 10 – point 4 a (new)
Article 10 – point 4 a (new)
(4a). Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that during paternity leave or co-maternity leave, workers enjoy the same protection from dismissal afforded in Article 1 to workers within the meaning of Article 2.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 3 -point d
Article 1 – point 3 -point d
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 11 – paragraph 5
Article 11 – paragraph 5
5.Member States shall take the measures necessary to ensure that workers, within the meaning of Article 2, may, during maternity leave or when returning from maternity leave, as provided for in Article 8, request changes to their working hours and patterns, and that employers shall be obliged to consider such requests, taking employers' and workers' needs into account with a view to promoting greater reconciliation between professional, private and family life. An employer may refuse such a request only if the organisational disadvantages for the employer are disproportionately greater than the benefit to the worker.