Employees working on the basis of the individual labour contract and workers of public bodies, religious associations, trade unions, patronages, foundations, parties and other non-commercial organizations, using wage labour.
Labour Code §3
Qualifying conditions
No qualifying conditions identified
Duration
General total duration
Women employees and women apprentices, and also the wives in the care of the employees, are granted maternity leave, including prenatal leave with a duration of 70 calendar days and postnatal leave with a duration of 56 calendar days.
Labour Code § 124(1)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 126 calendar days (70 days prenatal and 56 days postnatal)
2004: One hundred and twenty-six days
1998: n.a.
1994: n.a.
Extension
In cases of the complicated births or births of two or more children women are entitled to a postnatal holiday with a duration of 70 calendar days.
Labour Code § 124(1)
RELATED TYPES OF LEAVE
Parental leave
Scope
Women employees and women apprentices, wives in the care of the employees, father of the child, grandmother, grandfather or other relative, who takes care of the child.
Labour Code § 124(1) , 124(4)
Length
PArtially paid parental leave is granted until the child reaches the age of three. The grant is paid for this period from the budget of the state social insurance.
Mothers and fathers are given under the written application, additional unpaid holiday on child nursing, aged three to six years
Labour Code §124, 126
Adoption leave
Length
The employee, who has adopted a new-born child directly from the maternity hospital or established guardianship over him, is given a paid holiday for the period from the date of adoption (establishment of guardianship) and before the expiration of 56 calendar days from the birth of the child (in case of simultaneous adoption of two or more children - 70 calendar days), and also under his written application, a partially paid holiday on child nursing until the age of three. Grants to specified holidays are paid from the budget of the state social insurance.
The employee, who has adopted a new-born child directly from the maternity hospital or established guardianship over him, is given under his written application additional unpaid holiday on child nursing, aged three to six years.
Labour Code §127
CASH BENEFITS
Maternity leave benefits
Duration
126 days
Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2008: Moldova
Amount
100%
Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2008: Moldova
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 100%
2004: One hundred percent
1998: n.a.
1994: n.a.
Financing of benefits
Social security.
Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2008: Moldova
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: Social security.
2004: Social security
1998: n.a.
1994: n.a.
Parental leave benefits
Duration
After the maternity holiday, mothers are granted a partially paid holiday on child care, until the child reaches the age of three.
§ 124(2)
Financing of benefits
The grant is paid for this period from the budget of the state social insurance.
Labour Code § 124(2)
MEDICAL BENEFITS
Pre-natal, childbirth and post-natal care
No information available
BREASTFEEDING
Right to nursing breaks or daily reduction of hours of work
Nursing breaks are not provided for in the legislation.
Nursing facilities
The obligation to have nursing facilities is not covered by the legislation.
HEALTH PROTECTION
Arrangement of working time
Night work
Pregnant women, women who are on postnatal holiday, women having children under the age three can not perform nightwork.
Labour Code §103(5)
Overtime
Engagement in overtime work is not admitted for employees under the age of eighteen, pregnant women, women who are on postnatal holiday, women having children under the age of three.
Labour Code §105
Work on rest days
Engagement of employees in labour activities on the days off is not admitted for employees under the age of eighteen, pregnant women, women who are on postnatal holiday, and women having children under the age of three.
Engagement in work on non-working holidays is not admitted for employees under the age of eighteen, pregnant women, women on postnatal holiday, and women having children under the age of three.
Labour Code §110, 111
Time off for medical examinations
Time off for medical examinations is not provided for.
Other work arrangements
Persons under the age of eighteen, pregnant women, women on postnatal holiday, women having children under the age three, and also persons for whom work in continuous shifts is contra-indicated, according to the medical conclusion are not admitted to perform continuous shift work
Labour Code §318(1)
Dangerous or unhealthy work
General
The employer is responsible to ensure labour safety at the Enterprise.
There is a general prohibition for women on heavy work and work in harmful working conditions, and also on underground work. Exceptions exist related to work on sanitary services and the work which does not demand physical effort.
It is forbidden for women to lift and carry weights, exceeding the limit rates established for them. The list of heavy work, work in harmful conditions, on which women’s work is forbidden, and also the limit rates of loading at lifting and carrying weights are approved by the Government after consultations with patronages and trade unions.
Labour Code §225, §247
Risk assessment
» Transfer to another post
Pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, according to medical conclusion are given by way of transference easier work, which excludes the influence of adverse production factors, and preserving the average wages on the previous place of work.
Labour Code §250
» Paid/unpaid leave
While solving the problem of granting an easier work, which excludes the influence of hazardous production factors, the pregnant woman should be released from performing labour duties with the preservation of the average wages for all the working days, when she didn’t work.
Labour Code §250
NON-DISCRIMINATION AND EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
Anti-discrimination measures
Refusal in employment or reduction of the size of wages for reasons connected to pregnancy or having children under the age of six, is forbidden. Refusal in employment of pregnant women or person having child under the age of six, or for other reasons should be motivated, the person is informed in writing by the employer during five calendar days from the date of registering the application. Refusal in employment can be appealed against in judicial instance.
Labour Code § 247 (1)
Protection from discriminatory dismissal
Dismissal of pregnant women, women having children under the age of six, and persons who are on child nursing holidays, stipulated by art. 124, 126 and 127 is forbidden,, except for the cases of enterprise liquidation.
Labour Code § 251
Burden of proof
The burden of proof is not covered.
Guaranteed right to return to work
No provisions found guaranteeing women the right to return to work.
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