Calling for action on implementation of the International Code and
maternity protection including breastfeeding breaks at work
Not exact matches
The courses we offer are aimed at service managers and frontline workers from a variety of settings,
including Children's Centres,
maternity services, child
protection, schools and family learning services, Job Centre Plus, child and adolescent mental health services, teenage pregnancy services and youth offending teams.
(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns,
including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new,
maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing
maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and
maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;
Enact paid family leave and workplace breastfeeding policies, building on the International Labour Organization's
maternity protection guidelines as a minimum requirement,
including provisions for the informal sector.
«Throughout negotiations with Congressional leadership and the White House, I have insisted that
protections for
maternity care must be
included in any final package,» Stefanik said.
Stefanik said the Senate needs to shore up
protections for the optional benefits currently at risk,
including maternity care and drug treatment.
While not sponsored under Obamacare, an off - exchange health insurance policy still covers the same essential benefits and
protections,
including for pregnancy and
maternity care.
Tata AIG plans to come up with an insurance plan with a $ 500,000 cover that will
include maternity benefits and physiotherapy costs along with drug and alcohol rehabilitation, cancer screening, pregnancy termination and sponsor -
protection programmes.
The block grant provision would allow states to eliminate key ACA
protections for some insurance plans,
including requirements to cover
maternity care, contraceptive methods and services, and other preventive care.