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 Protocol on Employment and Labour -17

Select target paragraph3