Sentences with phrase «give pregnant workers»

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Health workers are given responsibility for advising pregnant women and parents.

The Code gives health workers the responsibility for advising pregnant women and parents.

Intervention: a community - based worker carrying out 2 activities: 1) 1 home visit to all pregnant women in the third trimester, followed by subsequent monthly home visits to all infants aged 0 — 24 months to support appropriate feeding, infection control, and care - giving; 2) a monthly women's group meeting using participatory learning and action to catalyse individual and community action for maternal and child health and nutrition.

Examples of accommodations for pregnant workers include reassigning those in manual labor jobs to lower - impact positions, giving seats to checkout workers and others in retail jobs and making sure pregnant women are allowed to drink water on the job to remain hydrated, Quinn and Vacca said.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

«At a fundamental level, workplace policies that are structured around an «ideal» worker who never gets pregnant, gives birth, or breastfeeds — in other words, a male worker — look an awful lot like institutionalized sexism,» Galen writes.

The EAT drew a distinction between the rights given to pregnant workers and those who have given birth (who by reason of biology are female) on one hand and, on the other, those (of either sex) who take time off to care for their child.

The Pregnant Worker's Directive requires employers to give pregnant women and those who have given birth a minimum of fourteen weeks» maternity leave with adequate pay; the reason for this being to promote the health and wellbeing of thePregnant Worker's Directive requires employers to give pregnant women and those who have given birth a minimum of fourteen weeks» maternity leave with adequate pay; the reason for this being to promote the health and wellbeing of thepregnant women and those who have given birth a minimum of fourteen weeks» maternity leave with adequate pay; the reason for this being to promote the health and wellbeing of the mother.

Last year, Advocate General Kokott advised that the mother was entitled to 14 weeks» paid maternity leave under the Pregnant Workers» Directive, but that the maternity leave should be shared with the woman who gave birth.