The employer must reduce the workload of expectant mothers on his staff - this rule is spelled out in a number of articles of the Labor Code. To take advantage of your advantage and be able to defend your rights, you need to be clear about what a working pregnant woman can count on.
Applying for a job
Pregnant women looking for work should be aware that an employee of the HR department or the future employer himself has no right to refuse a job just because of her interesting position. The refusal can be motivated only by insufficient qualifications, which can be challenged in the labor inspectorate or in court, or the presence of other restrictions that the applicant for the position does not meet. If a personnel officer openly admits that the company does not hire pregnant women or those with small children, this is a direct violation of the law and is punished under the article of the Criminal Code (Article 145). If, when applying for a job, it is required to go through a probationary period, then for a pregnant woman such a condition is omitted, since this would become an illegal way of dismissing her.
Labor conditions
If a pregnancy test has shown a positive result in a working woman, then she has the right to some relaxation in her work. Firstly, according to the written opinion of the doctor, she should be transferred to lighter working conditions. Such a certificate is issued already at the first appointment with a gynecologist. It will be necessary to write a corresponding application for the transfer.
If the new position is paid lower, then the expectant mother retains her earnings in the previous place, the salary is also calculated for the days of forced downtime, when the employer no longer had the right to attract a pregnant woman to harmful work, but has not yet transferred her. If there are no safe positions, then the employee can be sent home or simply put into the office - while all the forced downtime days are paid in full.
Working hours can be reduced without a doctor's recommendation - for this it is enough to write a statement, while the salary is reduced in proportion to the hours removed. Sitting at the computer does not apply to useful conditions and is limited to 3 hours, and can be completely canceled by transferring to another place. Harmful conditions also include:
- weight lifting activities;
- static position (long sitting or standing)
- contact with toxic substances and ionizing radiation;
- high noise levels and other reasons affecting the course of pregnancy.
It is forbidden to go out at night, for a day, call from vacation. By the way, vacation is provided ahead of schedule at any desired time. Visits to the doctor are carried out without hindrance with no deductions from salaries, and the only reason for dismissal is the liquidation of the company.
