Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2024, Publicación: 113ª reunión CIT (2025)

Convenio sobre la protección de la maternidad, 2000 (núm. 183) - Kazajstán (Ratificación : 2012)

Article 3 of the Convention. Health protection. The Committee observes that under section 44 of the Labour Code, based on a medical report, pregnant women shall be temporarily transferred to another job, which does not have any harmful or hazardous workplace factors, or be temporarily released until the beginning of maternity leave. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the types of work or occupations that would have been determined by the competent authority to be prejudicial to the health of pregnant and breastfeeding women and their children. The Committee further requests the Government to indicate if there exists a procedure to assess the health risks for a pregnant or breastfeeding worker and her child to perform a particular type of work, and to specify the relevant legislative provisions.It also requests the Government to indicate any measures available to breastfeeding women not to perform work considered as prejudicial to their health or that of their child.

Article 8(2). Right to return to the same position or an equivalent position paid at the same rate at the end of maternity leave. The Committee observes that pursuant to Articles 100(3) and 126-1 of the Labour Code, the right to retain the place of work (position) is provided to women who are on unpaid leave to care for a child up to the age of three years as well as pregnant women with up to 12 weeks of pregnancy during the period of undergoing medical examination. The Commission requests the Government to confirm that the right to return to the same position or an equivalent position paid at the same rate is guaranteed to women at the end of maternity leave.