Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Maternity Protection Convention, 1919 (No. 3) - Guinea (Ratification: 1966)

Article 3(c) of the Convention. The Committee notes the Government's report. It refers to the observation it made in 1983 in which it noted the provision contained in section 12 of Decree No. 2263/MT of 9.4.82 that a woman should be entitled, at the expense of the National Social Security Fund, to half her wages as maternity benefit during the period of her lawful absence, and that the cost of paying the other half of the wages, paid by the employer as a supplement to the benefit, would gradually be assumed by the above Fund. The Committee points out that the Convention does not authorise maternity benefits to be charged directly to the employer and trusts that the Government will be able to give full effect to the Convention in this respect in the near future. It requests the Government to indicate in its next report any progress achieved in this matter.