Activities of Silvia COSTA 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 (3)
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1
Article 1 – point 1
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. The maternity leave stipulated in paragraph 1 shall include compulsory fully paid maternity leave of at least six weeks after childbirth, without prejudice to existing national laws which provide for a period of compulsory maternity leave before 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. The six week period of compulsory maternity leave shall apply to all working women regardless of the number of days worked prior to confinement.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The vulnerability of pregnant workers and of workers who have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding makes it necessary for them to be granted the right to maternity leave of at least 1820 continuous weeks, allocated before and/or after confinement, and renders necessary the compulsory nature of maternity leave of at least six weeks allocated after confinement and at least four weeks allocated before confinement.
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1
Article 1 – point 1
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. The maternity leave stipulated in paragraph 1 shall include compulsorfully paid compulsory maternity leave of at least six weeks after childbirth and at least four weeks before childbirth, without prejudice to national laws which provide for a longer period of compulsory leave prior to confinement. 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. The ten-week compulsory maternity leave (six weeks after childbirth and four weeks before childbirth) shall apply to all working women regardless of the number of days worked prior to confinement.