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Female worker’s right in childbirth and kids’ care vacations
My sister worker:
In the beginning, we have to ensure that work is an original right of human rights whether the worker is female or male. Moreover, work conditions have to permit the worker to do his duties and at the same time has real humanistic life. The female worker is a mother beside beeing worker. She faces special circumstances especially at the time of her childbirth and kids’ care and mainly through the first phases of their ages. These special conditions don’t decrease from women positions in their work.
But these conditions obligate the society to help female workers in order to be able to do her role completely and share in building of her community. Then she achieves herself as a normal human being, who enjoys with his humanistic rights.
What are the conditions of the suitable environment??
We have to be aware that children aren’t only mother’s responsibility, but they are responsibility of the father and the whole society because all these members are sharing in forming the child, youth and future man. Consequently, each member has duties towards those children and their mothers.
The mother is the person, who suffers through her pregnancy and child delivery so she has to enjoy with enough rest along her pregnancy that means she has a right of paid and unconditional vacation. Moreover, we have to offer comprehensive health care, enough rest and close- kindergartens for female workers children.
We have to issue laws that achieve reasonable balance between the female worker and the mother. These laws obligate work owners in different fields to protect rights of female workers. These laws save humanistic work conditions for female workers especially through her own conditions that obligate work owners to stop violating female workers rights.
Unfortunately:
The Egyptian female worker suffers from negligence of employers and the law itself for her humanistic rights. That the new draft law concerning united law of labor imposes additional restrictions over female workers like;
- About article no 91, the draft law decreases childbirth vacations from three times to be only two times. Moreover, it shortens its length from three months to be eighty-four days.
- About vacations of kids’ care, the draft law decreases these vacations to be two times instead of three times that these vacations will extend to six years instead of nine years.
- The draft law restricts female worker right in vacation of kids’ care with existence of fifty workers in the firm. Therefore, if workers’ number decrease than fifty workers, she will be prevented from her right.
- The draft law conditions existence of one hundred workers to establish kindergartens that violate article no 158 of the current labor law.
- Article no 132 of the new draft law validates for female workers to finish their labor contracts because of their marriage, pregnancy or childbirth.
- All these mentioned articles don’t only violate previous Egyptian labour laws only, but also they violate all international charters of human rights that permit female workers to enjoy with their rights completely without any discrimination between man and woman.
- Finally, we say to each female worker “you are a human being before being worker or mother that you have to enjoy with all humanistic rights. Your kids will be the future man and woman so you have to defend for your right to care them. It is your kids’ right. You have to defend of your humanity as woman, worker and mother”.