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Maternity Protection Convention, 1919 (No. 3) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (RATIFICATION: 1944)

Article 4 of the Convention (prohibition of dismissal of women who are public servants or employees). The Committee recalls that as a result of this provision of the Convention it is unlawful for the employer to give notice of dismissal to a woman worker during her absence on maternity leave or at such a time that the notice would expire during such absence. The Committee notes that the sole paragraph of article 384, read together with article 385 of the Organic Labour Law of 20 December 1990, provides for irremovability with regard to women workers on maternity leave. The Committee would like the Government to indicate if, during the period of maternity leave provided for in article 385, the worker may be dismissed immediately for one of the valid reasons laid down in article 102 of the Organic Labour Law upon the approval of the labour inspector, in conformity with the second sentence of article 384.