With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of employed women to protection, the Contracting Parties undertake:
- 1.to provide either by paid leave, by adequate social security benefits or by benefits from public funds for women to take leave before and after childbirth up to a total of at least 12 weeks;
- 2.to consider it as unlawful for an employer to give a woman notice of dismissal during her absence on maternity leave or to give her notice of dismissal at such a time that the notice would expire during such absence;
- 3.to provide that mothers who are nursing their infants shall be entitled to sufficient time off for this purpose;
- 4.
- (a)to regulate the employment of women workers on night work in industrial employment;
- (b)to prohibit the employment of women workers in underground mining, and, as appropriate, on all other work which is unsuitable for them by reason of its dangerous, unhealthy, or arduous nature.
