Lengthening of maternity leave: men can accompany 15 to 30 days
origin: People's daily Li Hongmei
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after the implementation of the comprehensive two child policy, every place has increased reproductive reward or extended production in succession. Sham, in order to better protect the health of most of the two mothers of elderly mothers. Two maternity leave, two maternity leave allowances, and the payment of maternity insurance fund are facing pressure. Experts believe that the burden of enterprises can not be increased, otherwise it may aggravate workplace sex discrimination and affect people's childbearing wishes.
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2017, the new China News Agency issued a comprehensive two child policy for second years. Last year the new population increased by about 1300000, of which second children accounted for 45%. Can childbirth be as much as maternity leave? If the maternity leave is not enough, it is bound to affect the health of the two - child mother and the care of the children, which will give birth to other families who want to be born.
in accordance with the State Health Planning Commission's report on the supervision and inspection of the population and family planning law, 29 provinces (districts and cities) have revised the local population and family planning regulations. On the basis of the 98 day maternity leave of the special provisions for women workers' labor protection, the revised regulations all increased the birth reward or extended maternity leave, and generally reached 138 to 158 days, with male escort leave or nursing leave, usually from 15 to 30 days.
maternity leave is intended to protect the rights and interests of women, to maintain the health of women, to maintain the productive forces of women workers, and to ensure the time of breastfeeding and care for infants and children, which is beneficial to the health of mother and child. In China, 2/3 is more than 35 years old, and the extension of second child maternity leave is more practical in the two child policy. The professor of the Institute of population and development of Nankai University said that the actual average age of the couples in China was 25 to 27 years old, and the age of second children was generally high, and the probability of birth of non healthy babies was also increasing, which was not conducive to the improvement of the quality of the birth population. On the other hand, the health risks of pregnant and producing pregnant women are increasing during pregnancy and production. Meanwhile, the function of self recovery of postpartum is weakening, and the strength and energy of the husband and wife to take care of the children are decreasing. He believes that the extension of maternity leave in provinces with fewer maternity leave is good, which is conducive to the health of mothers and babies, while giving better consideration to family and career.
"special provisions for labor protection of female workers" requires that if the maternity leave in this provision is not implemented, female workers may complain, report and appeal according to law, and apply for mediation and arbitration to the mediation arbitration organization of the labor and personnel disputes, and bring a lawsuit to the people's court in accordance with the law.
, however, experts generally believe that maternity leave is a double-edged sword, which protects women's rights and interests, and also affects women's childbearing wishes. In the first place, a child can be employed for 6 months, and now two years later, the female workers will not be able to work normally for 2 years. For female workers, maternity leave is too long, will worry about their career advancement and career development are affected.