Legal Indicators for Combining work, family and personal life

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1 Legal Indicators for Combining work, family and personal life Country Africa Algeria % Angola 3 months 100% Mixed (if necessary, employer tops up social security) Benin % Mixed (50% Botswana 12 25% or 50% for each day of absence Burkina Faso % Mixed (if necessary, employer tops up social security) Burundi % Mixed (50% 3 Cameroon % Central 14 50% African Chad % Comoros % Congo % Mixed (50% Cote d'ivoire % Democratic Congo 14 Two-thirds Djibouti % Mixed (50% Egypt 3 months 100% Mixed (75% 25% employer) Equatorial Guinea Eritrea 60 days Paid, but no on how much 12 75% Ethiopia 90 days 100% Gabon % Gambia %

2 Ghana % Guinea % Mixed (50% Guinea- Bissau 60 days 100% Mixed (if necessary employer pays difference between social security and earnings) Kenya 3 months 100% Lesotho 12 obligation Unpaid for employers to pay N/A Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 50 days 50% (100% for self-employed women) (social security for self-employed women) Madagascar % Mixed (50% Malawi 8 100% Mali % Mauritania % Mauritius % Morocco % Mozambique 60 days 100% Namibia % Niger 14 50% Nigeria 12 50% Rwanda % first six ; 20% remainder Sao Tome and Principe 60 days 100% 1 Senegal % Seychelles 14 Flat monthly rate for 12 Mixed Somalia 14 50% South Africa 4 months Up to 60% depending on income Sudan 8 100% Swaziland 12 Unpaid N/A N/A

3 Tanzania, 84 days 100% United Togo % Mixed (50% Tunisia 30 days Two-thirds Uganda 60 working days 100% for 1 month Zambia % Zimbabwe 98 days 100% Asia (East, South-East, Pacific, South) Afghanistan 90 days 100% Bangladesh % Cambodia 90 days 50% China 90 days 100% Fiji 84 days Flat rate India % 1 Indonesia 3 months 100% Kiribati 12 25% Korea, 90 days 100% Mixed (2/3 employer; 1/3 social security) 2 Lao People s 90 days 100% 1 3 Democratic Malaysia 60 days 100% Mongolia 120 days 70% Myanmar 12 Two-thirds Nepal 52 days 100% Pakistan % Papua New As Unpaid N/A N/A Guinea necessary for hospitalization before confinement and 6 after Philippines 60 days 100%

4 Singapore % for first and second child Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Mixed (8 employer and 8 government) Government for the third and subsequent confinement 12 25% 12 6/7 or 100% 4 for 1st and 2nd child Thailand 90 days 45 days paid 100% by employer, then 45 days paid 50% by social security Mixed (2/3 employer; 1/3 social security) Vanuatu 12 50% Viet Nam 4 to 6 months 7 100% Central and South-Eastern Europe (n-eu) and CIS Albania 365 days 80% prior to birth through 150 days after; 50% for remainder Azerbaijan 126 days 100% Belarus 126 days 100% D** Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia 365 days 50% to 100% 8 and State (employer reimbursed for initial payment) 45 days before birth to one year after birth 100% until 6 months after birth, then fixed amount (health insurance fund for 6 month, then State) Kazakhstan 126 days 100% Kyrgyzstan 126 days 100% first 10 working days; 10 times the benchmark indicator (minimum wage level) for remaining period The former Yugoslav Macedonia Moldova, State (employer pays the benefits, but is reimbursed by the State) 126 days 100% D**

5 Montenegro 365 days from birth Russian Federation Serbia 100% 140 days 100% up to a 365 days for 1 st and 2 nd child 100% Tajikistan 140 days 100% Turkey 16 Two-thirds Ukraine 126 days 100% Uzbekistan 126 days 100% Developed Economies and European Union Australia 52 Unpaid N/A N/A Austria % D** Belgium 15 82% first 30 days; 75% up to a for remaining period Bulgaria 227 days 90% Canada 17 (federal) 55% for 15 up to a Cyprus 18 75% Czech 28 69% Denmark % for Mixed regular employees (employer and local government) Estonia 140 days 100% Finland 105 working days 70% up to a plus 40% of additional amount, plus 25% of additional amount France % up to a Germany % Mixed (social security up to a and employer) Greece 119 days 100% and State Hungary 24 70% D** Iceland 3 months 80% and State universal flat rate for non qualifying women

6 Ireland 26 paid (plus 16 unpaid) 80% up to a Israel % up to a for 14 Italy 5 months 80% D** Japan 14 60% Latvia 112 days 100% Lithuania 126 days 100% Luxembourg % D** Malta % Netherlands % up to a New Zealand % up to a State (Universal) rway 36 (or 46) 9 100% (or 80% for 46 ) Poland % Portugal 120 (or 150) days 100% (or 80% for 150 days) Romania 126 days 85% San Marino 5 months 100% Slovakia 28 55% Slovenia 105 days 100% up to a D** D** Spain % Sweden 14 80% Switzerland 14 80% (up to a ) and mandatory private insurance (50% employer; 50% United Kingdom United States 52 6 paid at 90%; lower of 90%/flat rate for 7 39; unpaid 12 Unpaid (federal) Latin America and the Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda % for 6 ; 60% for 7. employee) Mixed (employer reimbursed for 92% by the State) national programme Mixed (60% 40% employer for first 6 ). N/A Argentina 90 days 100% Bahamas % Mixed (2/3 social security, for 13 ; 1/3 employer

7 for 12 ) Barbados % Belize % 1 D** Bolivia, Plurinational State of 60 days 100% of minimum wage plus 70% of the difference between minimum wage and regular earnings Brazil 120 days 100% D* Chile % up to a D* Colombia % Costa Rica 4 months 100% Mixed (50% 50% employer) 1 Cuba % D** Dominica 12 60% Mixed Dominican % Mixed (50% 50% employer) 1 Ecuador % Mixed (75% 25% employer) El Salvador 12 75% 1 Grenada 3 months 105% for 2 months; 65% for last month Mixed (65% social security for 12 ; 40% employer for 2 months) Guatemala 84 days 100% Mixed (2/3 1/3 employer) 1 Guyana 13 70% Haiti % for 6 Honduras % for 84 days 5 6 Jamaica % for 8 Mexico % 1 Nicaragua % Mixed (60% 40% employer) 1 Panama % Mixed 6 Paraguay 12 50% for 9

8 Peru 90 days 100% Saint Kitts 13 65% and Nevis Saint Lucia 3 months 65% Saint Vincent 13 65% and the Grenadines Trinidad and % for 1 Mixed Tobago month and 50% for 2 months paid by employer plus a sum depending on earnings from social security Uruguay % D* Venezuela, Bolivarian % D Middle East Bahrain 60 days 100% for 45 days; then unpaid Iran,Islamic 90 days or 4 months if breastfeeding Two-thirds Iraq 62 days 100% Jordan % Kuwait 70 days 100% Lebanon 7 100% Qatar 50 days 100% Saudi Arabia 10 50% or 100% depending on duration of employment Syrian Arab United Arab Emirates 120 days (for first child) 100% 45 days 100% Yemen 60 days 100% D=Denounced; D*=Denounced, C.103 ratified; D**=Denounced, C.183 ratified; N/A = not applicable.

9 te: The length of as included in this Annex refers to the normal general duration of as provided for by legislation at the national level. Unless otherwise specified, the duration of in days is intended as consecutive or calendar days. 1. If a woman is not covered by social insurance but is otherwise qualified for, her employer is responsible for the full payment of her cash benefits. 2. For employees of enterprises meeting the criteria of the Enforcement Decree of the Employment Insurance Act, the Employment Insurance Fund pays the whole period. 3. Only some areas of the country are covered. 4. 6/7 for employees covered by the Maternity Benefits Ordinance; 100% for those covered by the Shops and Offices Employees Act. 5. The Labour Code (31 March 2003) provides 10, while according to the General Regulation of Social Security Act (15 February 2005) benefits are paid for 84 days by social security. 6. makes up the difference between social security or mandatory individual account payments and wages to 6 months depending on the working conditions and nature of the work % ( Srpska); 50-80%, depending upon the various cantonal regulations (Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina). 9. rway has a system of paid, paternity and parental of 56 or 46 altogether (paid respectively at 80% or 100% of previous earnings). For the purpose of determining the length of, the 10 of paid exclusively reserved for the father have been left out of consideration. The mother may use the remainder of 46 or 36, of which 9 are exclusively reserved for her. Sources All in the table is based on the ILO Database of Conditions of Work and Employment Laws - Maternity, available at: and ISSA, except the on Bosnia and Herzegovina. The on Bosnia and Herzegovina is from: ILOLEX, CEACR Individual Direct Request concerning Maternity Convention (Revised), 1952 (.103), Bosnia and Herzegovina (ratification: 1993), Submitted: Available at: