SITUATION OF PREGNANT WORKERS

 Between 1961 and  Incontrast,

1965, for example, between 2006 and
44 percentages of 2008, nearly two-
mothers who thirds of first-time
worked for the first mothers worked
time during while pregnant;
pregnancy was
pushing out from
work;
 Pregnancy is not a
disease, but employees
can endanger their
health and the child of
their own when working
in an office
 Pregnant workers that
are working in
inflexible, physically
demanding, or also risky
jobs are particularly
more likely to need
accommodations to
continue working safely.
COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 92/85/EEC OF 19
OCTOBER 1992
 The purpose of this  The objective of this
Directive 92/85/EEC directive seeks to
of October 1992, protect the health and
regarding the safety at work of
pregnant workers is to pregnant women,
protect the health and newly born women, or
safety of women at nursing women.
work when they are
pregnant or after
recent birth, and
women who are
breastfeeding.
AMENDMENT TO THE DIRECTIVE 92/85/EEC -
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE
RESOLUTION OF 20 OCTOBER 2010

 article1a is inserted  1st article states: “The

“This Directive also purpose of this
aims to improve the Directive, which is the
conditions for pregnant tenth individual
workers and workers Directive within the
who have recently given meaning of Article 16 (1)
birth to remain in, or of Directive 89/391/EEC,
return to, the labour is to implement
market and to ensure measures to encourage
better reconciliation of improvements in the
professional, private safety and health at
and family life” work of pregnant
workers and workers
who have recently given
birth or who are
breastfeeding”
 Clear policy guidance, laws, and
employers protecting the right to
reasonable accommodation for pregnant
workers in need will help to put an end to
the serious physical ,economic, and
emotional difficulties suffered by pregnant
workers and their families when women
are pushed off the job, and afford
pregnant women the equal opportunity
that they disserve.
 Starting the Directive 92/85/EEC of 19
October 1992 on the introduction of
measures to encourage improvements in the
safety and health at work of pregnant
workers and workers who have recently
given birth or are breastfeeding,
directive 2006/54/EC of the European
Parliament and of the council of 5 July 2006
on the implementation of the principle of
equal opportunities and equal treatment of
men and women in matters of employment
and occupation, and other national laws,
pregnant women and new mothers started to
be protected at workplace.