Document: Law of Amendment to the Maternity of the Worker
Type of document: Law
Date of issue: 29/09/1987
Number of Legal Instrument: Law No 61
Broadcaster: National Assembly of People's Power
Date of entry to the repository: 17/05/2016
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FLAVIO BRAVO PARDO , President of the National Assembly of the People's Power of the Republic of Cuba,
I DO KNOW That the National Assembly of People's Power, at its meeting of 29 September 1987, corresponding to the first regular session of the Third Legislature, has approved the following:
AS REGARDS : The Law of Maternity of the Worker, in its Article 10 states that: " The economic benefit that the worker will receive in the period of maternity leave will be equal to the average weekly income that, by way of wages and subsidies, you have noticed in the immediate twelve months prior to the beginning of your enjoyment. This benefit will never be less than ten pesos ($10.00) a week. "
AS FOR: In the course of the years following the promulgation of the abovementioned Law, it has been possible to verify that, in practice, there are cases in which the pregnant woman has to make rest by prescription which affects her doubly, since during that time not only receives per subsidy a much smaller amount than that which it perceives when it is working, but also that circumstance affects the amount of the economic benefit that will accrue later, as payment of the license of maternity.
AS FOR: Taking into account the disadvantageous position in which the woman who presents the so-called accidents of pregnancy is found, in respect of which she develops normal or favourably her state of pregnancy, it is necessary to adopt the measures to eradicate in the cases of lower income, the economic damage caused by this cause, assuring the affected by these accidents a fair and consequent treatment with this situation, for which it is necessary to modify the mentioned Article 10 of the Law on the Maternity of the Worker.
BY TANT: The National Assembly of People's Power, in use of the powers conferred on it in point (b) of Article 73 of the Constitution of the Republic, has approved the following:
ACT NO. 61
LAW OF AMENDMENT TO THE LAW OF MATERNITY OF THE WORKER
ARTICLE 10 of Law 1263 of 14 January 1974, Law of Maternity of the Worker, which shall be worded as follows:
ARTICLE 10.-The economic benefit that the worker will receive in the period of maternity leave will be equal to the average weekly income which, by way of wages and allowances, has been received in the immediate twelve months prior to the start of your enjoyment. This benefit will never be less than twenty pesos ($20.00) a week.
FINAL PROVISIONS
FIRST: How many laws and regulations will be in opposition to the provisions of this Law.
SECOND: This Law will begin to apply from its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic.
DADO, in the session hall of the National Assembly of People's Power, Palace of the Conventions, City of Havana, at the twenty-nine days of the month of September of a thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven.
Flavio Bravo Pardo
