Maternity Protection provision of Republic Act No. 679, as amended by Republic Act No. 1131 (Woman and Child Labor Law)

February 1, 1971DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 006-71(Superseding Department Order No. 9 Series of 1963)SUBJECT : Maternity Protection provision of Republic Act No. 679, as amended by Republic Act No. 1131 (Woman and Child Labor Law)Section 8 of Republic Act No. 679, as amended, provides:"(a). In any shop, factory, commercial or agricultural establishment or other place of labor, the employer shall grant to any woman employed by him whom may be pregnant vacation with pay for six weeks prior to the expected date of delivery and for another eight weeks after normal delivery or miscarriage at the rate of not less than sixty per cent of her regular or average weekly wages. The employer shall have the right to require any woman applying for vacation leave with pay under this section to produce a medical certificate stating that delivery will probably take place within six weeks. The vacation shall be extended without pay on account of illness medically certified to arise out of the pregnancy or delivery or miscarriage rendering the woman unfit for work. Prolonged absence...