THE RIGHT OF WORKERS TO SPECIAL PROTECTION IN CASE OF MATERNITY, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER, INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC LAW
THE RIGHT OF WORKERS TO SPECIAL PROTECTION IN CASE OF MATERNITY, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER, INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC LAW

Summary/Abstract: Maternity protection is a fundamental right of workers who perform dependent or independent professional activity, enshrined in the most important international human rights treaties. Maternity, in safe and healthy conditions for mother and child, is the foundation of quality of life. Maternity protection is essential for both the creation of decent jobs and the development of women's professional careers, as well as for ensuring equal treatment and opportunities at work. However, social reality reveals the existence of a discrepancy between assumed legal values and practice, with maternity continuing to be a criterion of discrimination both at birth and at the termination of the legal employment relationship. Pregnant women continue to lose their jobs, even those covered by protective legislation. Discrimination against women because of their reproductive role remains a major barrier to equal opportunities and treatment between men and women. Finding effective ways to combat this discrimination and ensure that practices comply with the law is a major challenge for governments and social partners. The aim of this study is to identify, from a legal and medical perspective, the levers of action at the political decision-making level, so that the protection of working mothers does not remain just a value recognized at the normative level but not implemented in everyday life, in contemporary society, which is in permanent and profound dynamics.

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