Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2023, published 112nd ILC session (2024)

Maternity Protection Convention, 1919 (No. 3) - Panama (Ratification: 1958)

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Article 3(d) of the Convention. Nursing breaks. The Committee notes with interest the information provided by the Government in its report regarding the promulgation of Act No. 135 of 23 March 2020, which reforms Act No. 50 of 1995, and defines appropriate conditions for establishing breastfeeding facilities, expanding the entities that compose the National Commission for Promoting Breastfeeding (CONFOLACMA) and establishing further guidelines and conditions to protect, support and promote breastfeeding. The Committee also notes the statistical information regarding the establishment of breastfeeding facilities in 16 workplaces.