The meeting of the Council of Ministers chaired by Prime Minister Ahmed Hachani at the Government Palace in the Kasbah examined a draft law on maternity and paternity leave, according to a press release from the Prime Ministry.
The draft law is part of a “legislative revolution aimed at achieving social justice”. It aims to regulate maternity and paternity leave and to incorporate constitutional provisions, particularly Articles 12, 43, 51 and 52, which outline the state’s obligations to ensure social security.
It also seeks to protect the family as the fundamental unit of society and to establish mechanisms to guarantee equality for all without discrimination.
The draft law aims to improve and develop leave schemes, particularly those relating to maternity, applicable to all private sector employees and public servants under general legal provisions.
It seeks to provide all the necessary legal guarantees to ensure parity between the public and private sectors, to take into account the best interests of the child, to support family ties and to reconcile work and family life.
The draft law provides for the introduction of pre-maternity leave, the extension of maternity leave, the creation of maternity leave for mothers of children with disabilities and maternity leave for mothers who have given birth to a stillborn child.
The law also provides for the extension of paternity leave, the extension of post-maternity leave and the extension of breastfeeding breaks.
