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Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1

Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 – paragraph 1

(1) Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that workers within the meaning of Article 2 are entitled to a continuous period of maternity leave of at least 18 weeks allocated before and/or after confinement.deleted

2009/02/17
Committee: EMPL

Anja WEISGERBER

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1

Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 – paragraph 2

(2) The maternity leave stipulated in paragraph 1 shall include compulsory leave of at least six weeks after childbirth. The Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that workers within the meaning of Article 2 are entitled to choose freely the time at which the non-compulsory portion of the maternity leave is taken, before or after childbirth.deleted

2009/02/17
Committee: EMPL

Anja WEISGERBER

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1

Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)

(2a) The worker must indicate her chosen period of maternity leave at last two months before the starting date.

2009/02/17
Committee: EMPL

Anja WEISGERBER

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 3 − point b

Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 11 – point 2 − point (c a) (new)

(ca) Workers within the meaning of Article 2 shall maintain their opportunities for career development through education and training.

2009/02/17
Committee: EMPL

Anja WEISGERBER

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 4

Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 12a

(1) Member States shall take such measures as are necessary in accordance with their national judicial systems to ensure that when persons who consider that their rights under this Directive have been breached establish, before a court or other competent authority, facts from which it may be presumed that there has been such a breach, it shall be for the respondent to prove that there has been no breach of the Directive. (2) Paragraph 1 shall not prevent the Member States from introducing rules of evidence which are more favourable to plaintiffs. (3) Paragraph 1 shall not apply to criminal proceedings. (4) Member States need not apply paragraph 1 to proceedings in which the court or competent body investigates the facts of the case. (5) Paragraphs 1 to 4 shall also apply to any legal proceedings commenced according to Article 12.deleted

2009/02/17
Committee: EMPL

Anja WEISGERBER

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 6

Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 12c

Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to breaches of national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive, and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are applied. ~~Penalties may comprise payment of compensation, which may not be limited by the fixing of a prior upper limit, and must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.~~

2009/02/17
Committee: EMPL

6 Amendments of Anja WEISGERBER related to 2008/0193(COD)

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