Pregnancy Labor
These are some of your rights for labor, during pregnancy - Since the finding of "apparent state of pregnancy" (in the words allocated), you can quit your job without notice and without having to pay damages for breach of contract. However in this case, you deprive yourself of the right to reinstatement under terms of your maternity leave and the possibility of resignation with priority for rehiring. Caution, this priority is not a guarantee. You will benefit if a position matching your qualifications becomes available. If so, you retain all accrued benefits when you resign.

Work prohibited  - Some heavy or dangerous work are regulated by the Labor Code. Also consult your collective agreement may include additional cases. In addition, the occupational physician may, if deemed appropriate, additional testing or deployment job.
Organization of working time
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The law does not provide specific management of working time. But many collective agreements or company agreements provide for adjustments to schedules. If breastfeeding, you have an hour a day during working hours to breastfeed your child for a period of one year succeeding the birth of your child. These moments of stoppage divided into periods of 30 minutes must be negotiated with your employer. Otherwise, they are placed in the middle of your workday.

The hours allowed for breastfeeding are not considered hours of actual work and are not paid.Some collective agreements may nevertheless provide a better deal: as in banking, breastfeeding women receive their full salary.

- Transfer  - Your employer can not decide a single mutation under your pregnancy. However, if your health requires, you will be assigned temporarily to another job or your initiative or that of your employer on the advice of doctor.
- Maternity Leave: You are entitled to sixteen weeks of leave minimum six weeks before the expected date of birth and ten weeks later. In case of multiple births, the leave is extended to twelve weeks before birth and twenty-two weeks, for twins, and twenty four weeks before confinement and twenty-two weeks for triplets.

For the third child, your leave to twenty six weeks, eight weeks before childbirth and eighteen weeks.  In case of illness, duration of your maternity leave may be extended on prescription: two weeks before and / or four weeks after the expected date of delivery can be provided.

Maternity leave are treated as time worked: they give the same rights and benefits of seniority.During this period, you are compensated by your fund Social Security, except in the collective agreement if your company provides for the maintenance of wages by the employer.
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Back in Business : The employee will normally find the job she held before her maternity leave or if an equivalent is to say their job had undergone changes affecting an essential element of the employment contract you and will keep your earnings and your qualifications. You will receive a review of physician work within eight days

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