With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of employed women to the protection of maternity, the Parties undertake:
3. to provide that mothers who are nursing their infants shall be entitled to sufficient time off for this purpose;
Legal status
Legally binding
Body
Council of Europe
Document type
Regional treaty
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Economic Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
Health
Person(s) affected
Infants
Women
Year
1996
Paragraph type
Article
Reference
European Social Charter (Revised) (1996), Article 8, 3.
Paragraph focus
The right of employed women to protection of maternity