The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has published a list of benefits for nursing mothers returning to work from physical leave.
According to the RA Labor Code, childcare workers have the following guarantees and rights:
- the essential working conditions of the child’s actual caregiver, who is not on vacation, during the entire period of caring for a child up to one year old, cannot be changed to less favorable conditions, except for the job title and (or) categories;
- at the request of employees caring for children up to one year old, a part-time working day or a part-time working week can be established. In this case, the work is paid according to the time actually worked or the actual work performed.
- employees taking care of a child up to one year old can engage in overtime work only with their consent;
- employees caring for a child up to three years of age may engage in night work only with their consent, after passing a preliminary medical examination and submitting a medical report to the employer;
- workers caring for a child up to three years old can be involved in duty at home or in an organization only with their consent;
- employees taking care of a child up to one year old can work on weekends only with their consent;
- employees taking care of a child up to one year old can work on non-working holidays and memorial days only with their consent;
- employees who take care of a child under 14 years of age have the right to choose the time of annual leave after six months of continuous work;
- at the request of the mother (stepmother), father (stepfather) or guardian of the family actually taking care of the child, childcare leave is provided until the child turns three years old;
- employees caring for a child up to one year old can be sent on a business trip only with their consent;
- it is forbidden to involve women taking care of children under one year old in heavy, harmful, especially heavy, and harmful work defined by RA legislation;
- if a woman taking care of a child up to one year old needs to undergo a medical examination during working hours, the employer is obliged to release her from the performance of work duties, maintaining the average salary, which is calculated based on the average hourly salary;
- according to the current regulations, until the child is one and a half years old, a breastfeeding woman is given an additional break every three hours to feed the child, and the average hourly wage is maintained for that period.
