Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Maternity Protection Convention, 1919 (No. 3) - Côte d'Ivoire (Ratification: 1961)

Article 3(a) of the Convention. Compulsory postnatal leave. In reply to the Committee’s previous comments, the Government specifies that the compulsory nature of the eight-week period of postnatal leave is expressly established in section 23(6) of the preliminary draft amendment of the Labour Code, a copy of which will be sent to the Office as soon as it is adopted. The Committee hopes that this draft will be adopted in the near future and so give full effect to this provision of the Convention, which protects mothers from any pressure exerted by employers to return to work before the end of the postnatal leave, to the detriment of their health and that of their children.