The Directive of the European Parliament introduced the mandatory two weeks of leave for fathers to 100 percent of salary, while the provisions for mothers, Italian law is more advanced.
Labor and maternity protection. The comparison is always helpful and pleasant when, and what is not common, it turns out to have more advanced legislation in Italy that the average of European countries. The occasion of this reflection was offered by the recent 'launched by the European Parliament Directive on maternity leave', which is based on three fundamental points. The first two appear to be considerably below the standard of legislation already in force in Italy.
maternity leave '. The first objective of the European Parliament was to improve conditions for workers who expect a child, increasing the minimum weeks of maternity leave, paid at 100 percent of salary, from fourteen to twenty, raising the threshold with respect to prop
prevent the European Commission, who was staring at eighteen. In Italy this is an acquired right for many years. It should, however, to homogenize the measure - relative to full pay - in all categories and currently, in fact, for certain types of contracts as the contribution is limited to 80 percent. This first goal, instead, represents a real opportunity for women in Germany, France and England that, unlike the Italian, are entitled to leave with pay and less long non piene. La Direttiva ha voluto stabilire le regole minime al livello europeo, lasciando liberi gli Stati Membri di introdurre o mantenere regimi di congedo più favorevoli a quelli della Direttiva stessa. DIVIETO DI LICENZIAMENTO IN GRAVIDANZA. Secondo obiettivo dell'UE è stato quello di offrire una maggiore protezione per le donne lavoratrici, vietandone il licenziamento per un periodo minino che va dall'inizio della gravidanza ad almeno sei mesi dopo il termine del congedo di maternità. Anche in questo caso, l'Italia può vantare una normativa più avanzata. Infatti, nel nostro Paese il licenziamento è vietato fin quando il bambino non compia un anno di vita. Tuttavia, a fronte della nostra legislation more "enlightened", the unions have often reported cases of breaches of the law, as when in the selection interview women are asked to submit a certificate stating that you are pregnant, or when they are made to sign letters of resignation the same assumption in white, readily used by the employer if the worker becomes pregnant. The Directive also provides that the return from maternity leave is entitled to return to previous employment or equivalent while maintaining the same salary and job category, and the right to request part-time.
PATERNITY LEAVE '. The real news is the third objective of the 'Directive concerning the compulsory leave' for the fathers of the unborn. The fathers will receive at least two weeks of fully paid leave and can not be transferred to the mother, essoovvero must be taken during the twenty weeks of leave the mother even if the union is not formalized by marriage. In Italy, in fact, since 2000 there is the possibility for the father - is not mandatory - to take three days of leave at the birth of a child and then period to 30 percent of wages during the period of mandatory leave of mother. However, currently only a civil servant father can take advantage of the leave to pay full and limited to the first month. This possibility offered by the 2000 law was actually very little used by the fathers for economic reasons: the reduction to 30 per cent of the salary is too large and there is concern about possible impact on career.
In fact, the cultural factor has played, and plays an important role. Fathers who decide to take time off to care for the child with his mother are afraid to be the subject of mockery and ridicule in the workplace. The directive aims, then, also need to make a cultural change and Silvia Costa - MEP who has personally fought for the adoption of the Directive - highlights on its website as "the arrangement has a symbolic and concrete: the early involvement and guiding the father to so many mothers who often face alone, if no family networks, returning home with the baby, with depression and anxiety "." It is, therefore, a measure that would remove "an ingrained culture of inequality in the distribution of work and family responsibilities, but also to inequalities in the workplace."
The Directive is one by 'idea to devise a means to foster the growth of women's employment and fertility. However, according to the website lavoce.info, although in Italy the two provisions (twenty months of maternity leave and protection against dismissal) are in place for some time, but it remains low female employment rates (45 percent) and low fertility rates (1.3 to 1.4 children per woman). In Britain and France, however, where these two provisions are not "equally generous rates of participation in the labor market of women with children are above 60 percent." The fact is that in these countries that "work is the system of services for conciliation and that the tax breaks for families with children in the presence of greater employment opportunities for women."
The Directive contains however improvement of the existing rules protections in force in many European Member States and also sets out to extend self-employed women in the home, and parents who adopt children under the age of 12 months. Finally, additional leave are provided for, inter alia, for multiple births, those premature births for children with disabilities and for mothers with disabilities. The measure is under consideration by the Council of Europe, where it may find strong opposition from some countries that consider the proposal too expensive on the face of welfare.
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- Silvia Costa, MEP
creddit: nannimagazine Silvia D'Ambrosi (11/26/2010)
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