Southern African Development Community
(j)
adopt appropriate regulations for both enterprises and employment relations that
balance economic efficiency and social redistribution goals; and
(k)
ensure adequate protection against loss of employment, including protection
against arbitrary and/or unfair dismissal.
ARTICLE 16
MATERNITY AND PATERNITY
1.
State Parties shall ensure that maternity protection is afforded to all employed
women, including those in atypical forms of dependent work, and shall
endeavour to increase protection to the level provided for in the ILO Maternity
Protection (Revised) Convention, 2000 (No. 183).
2.
Employment-related maternity benefits shall ideally be financed through
compulsory social insurance paid by both the employer and the employees in
respect of the total number of men and women employed, without distinction of
sex.
3.
Maternity medical benefits shall include prenatal, childbirth and postnatal care, as
well as hospitalisation care when necessary.
4.
State Parties shall provide for, in accordance with national laws, paternity leave in
order to ensure that child-caring is a shared responsibility between father and
mother.
5.
State Parties shall ensure that women are not discriminated against or dismissed
on grounds of maternity.
6.
State Parties shall ensure that working conditions and environments are
appropriate for and conducive to pregnant and nursing mothers.
ARTICLE 17
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
(1)
(2)
State Parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities are afforded the rights
protected in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities of 2006, in particular employment and social protection rights.
State Parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities, whatever the nature and
origin of such disability, are entitled to additional concrete measures aimed at
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