The National Assembly improves the safety of staff | EUROtoday

The deputies adopted unanimously on Monday, May 5 within the night, a invoice geared toward securing the safety of the rights of staff engaged in a medically assisted procreation (PMA) or an adoption. The textual content additionally opens up sure prospects of absence throughout a PMA course to males.

“These routes are long, they are physically, psychologically and emotionally. And faced with this, the people concerned are still too often faced with misunderstanding, silence, even discrimination in their professional career ”defended the macronist rapporteur of the Propca Thevenot invoice to the gallery (Together for the Republic).

“Too often, the announcement of a pregnancy still exposes to discriminating behaviors: refusal of promotion, closet, refusal of training, end of contract”abounded the Minister of Labor, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, who supported the textual content. The invoice was adopted unanimously from the 127 deputies current of all teams. It should now be examined by the Senate.

Extended absence authorizations to males

In order to fill a authorized vacuum, the textual content plans to engrave a number of measures within the legislation for the good thing about “Employees engaged in a parental project as part of medical assistance” Or “Adoption”which might thus be protected in opposition to hiring refusals or breaks in contract throughout a trial interval. The invoice additionally goals to ensure their proper to not reveal a state of being pregnant, or to not bear sure modifications or assignments.

“Men who must undergo medical treatments in the context of a PMA course will also be protected, as well as people, men or women, who are in an adoption course”mentioned M^me Thevenot. Another article extends to males sure prospects of absence to obtain medical therapies as a part of a PMA.

The proposal additionally supplies that staff engaged in an adoption process could profit “Absence authorizations to present themselves to the compulsory interviews necessary to obtain approval”whose most quantity should be mounted by decree.

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