Maternity Protection Convention, 2000


Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 2000, with the preamble stating:
"Noting the need to revise the Maternity Protection Convention, 1952, and the Maternity Protection Recommendation, 1952, in order to further promote equality of all women in the workforce and the health and safety of the mother and child, and in order to recognize the diversity in economic and social development of Members, as well as the diversity of enterprises, and the development of the protection of maternity in national law and practice, and
"Noting the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the International Labour Organization's Declaration on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment for Women Workers, the International Labour Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up, as well as the international labour Conventions and Recommendations aimed at ensuring equality of opportunity and treatment for men and women workers, in particular the Convention concerning Workers with Family Responsibilities, 1981, and
"Taking into account the circumstances of women workers and the need to provide protection for pregnancy, which are the shared responsibility of government and society, and
"Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the revision of the Maternity Protection Convention, 1952, and Recommendation, 1952, which is the fourth item on the agenda of the session, and
"Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention;
"adopts this fifteenth day of June of the year two thousand the following Convention, which may be cited as the Maternity Protection Convention, 2000."

History

This Convention revised a 1952 ILO convention, which in turn was a revision of the original 1919 ILO convention. The revision was aimed at gaining more ratification by easing the requirements of the 1952 convention.

Content

The convention addresses the following subjects:
As of the March 2020, the following 38 states have ratified this Convention:
CountryDateDeclared period of maternity leaveNotes
Albania24 July 2004365 calendar days
Austria30 April 200416 weeks
Azerbaijan29 October 2010126 calendar days
Belarus10 February 2004126 days
Belize10 January 201214 weeks
Benin30 April 200414 weeks
Bosnia and Herzegovina18 January 2010one year; 18 months for subsequent births or twins
Bulgaria6 December 2001135 days
Burkina Faso4 March 201314 weeks
Cuba1 June 200418 weeks
Czechia3 July 201728 weeks-
Cyprus12 January 200516 weeks
Dominican Republic9 February 201614 weeks
Hungary4 November 200324 weeks
Italy7 February 2001five months
Kazakhstan13 June 201318 weeks
Latvia9 February 200916 weeks
Lithuania23 September 2003126 calendar days
Luxembourg8 April 200816 weeks
Republic of Macedonia3 October 2012nine months; 12 months for multiple births-
Mali5 June 200814 weeks
Mauritius13 Jun 201914 weeks-
Republic of Moldova28 August 2006126 calendar days
Montenegro19 April 2012365 days
Morocco13 April 201114 weeks
Netherlands15 January 200916 weeksapplies to the European territory of the Kingdom only
Niger10 June 201914 weeks
Norway9 November 201512 weeks pre-birth; six weeks post-birth
Peru9 May 201614 weeks, divided evenly between pre-birth and post-birth
Portugal8 November 2012120 or 150 consecutive days
Romania23 October 2002126 calendar days
San Marino19 June 2019150 days-
São Tomé and Príncipe12 June 201714 week-
Senegal18 April 201714 week-
Serbia31 August 201016 weeks
Slovakia12 December 200028 weeks
Slovenia1 March 2010105 days
Switzerland4 June 201414 weeks