Maternity Leave
Maternity leave
Introduction
At present, almost every country has provisions for maternity leave that provided to the female employees. Most industrialized countries have some form of maternity or parental leave policy that effectively grants employment protection to women around childbirth and in some cases to either parent for an even longer period after childbirth (Puhani and Sonderhof, 2009). Maternity leaves are the temporary leaves that allowed by the company or institutions to a female employee for delivering and taking care a baby with the full salary payment. Bourne and Lentz (2009) indicates that Maternity leave is the time away from paid employment for mothers to recuperate from childbirth or adoption and care for their new child. This maternity leaves is important to ensure the health of a baby, recovering process for a mother and also the time to manage a baby welfare and nursery before a mother ready for coming back to work. However, the duration or the provisions provided for the maternity leaves by one country is different from another country and it had become the major concerns in the world regarding the minimum length of the maternity leaves that enough and sufficient for a mother and baby before return back to the work. The country around the world views that maternity leaves as a women privileges for the childbearing roles and contribute to the population in the world. The duration of maternity leaves are relying to the government’s policy in one country on how they manage and handle the maternity leaves as the employment act in their country. The International Labor Organization (ILO) is the International organization responsible for drawing up and overseeing international labor standards. Protecting maternity has been among the first concerns of the ILO and they are responsible to review the employment protection for female workers in the international level. In 1919, the first Convention on maternity protection (Convention No. 3)
Introduction
At present, almost every country has provisions for maternity leave that provided to the female employees. Most industrialized countries have some form of maternity or parental leave policy that effectively grants employment protection to women around childbirth and in some cases to either parent for an even longer period after childbirth (Puhani and Sonderhof, 2009). Maternity leaves are the temporary leaves that allowed by the company or institutions to a female employee for delivering and taking care a baby with the full salary payment. Bourne and Lentz (2009) indicates that Maternity leave is the time away from paid employment for mothers to recuperate from childbirth or adoption and care for their new child. This maternity leaves is important to ensure the health of a baby, recovering process for a mother and also the time to manage a baby welfare and nursery before a mother ready for coming back to work. However, the duration or the provisions provided for the maternity leaves by one country is different from another country and it had become the major concerns in the world regarding the minimum length of the maternity leaves that enough and sufficient for a mother and baby before return back to the work. The country around the world views that maternity leaves as a women privileges for the childbearing roles and contribute to the population in the world. The duration of maternity leaves are relying to the government’s policy in one country on how they manage and handle the maternity leaves as the employment act in their country. The International Labor Organization (ILO) is the International organization responsible for drawing up and overseeing international labor standards. Protecting maternity has been among the first concerns of the ILO and they are responsible to review the employment protection for female workers in the international level. In 1919, the first Convention on maternity protection (Convention No. 3)