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Involvement of women in the workforce is part of the women’s economic empowerment. Yet pregnancy and maternity are an especially vulnerable time for working women and their families. Expectant and nursing mothers require special protection to prevent harm to their or their infants’ health, and they need adequate time to give birth, to recover, and to nurse their children. At the same time, they also require protection to ensure that they will not lose their job simply because of pregnancy or maternity leave. Such protection not only ensures a woman’s equal access to employment, it also ensures the continuation of often vital income which is necessary for the wellbeing of her entire family. Safeguarding the health of expectant and nursing mothers and protecting them from job discrimination is a precondition for achieving genuine equality of opportunity and treatment for men and women at work and enabling workers to raise families in conditions of security…
Under Yugoslavia Macedonia and Croatia followed the same Yugoslavian labour laws. When these countries became sovereign they started to write their own constitutions and laws. The Macedonian Law on Working Relation is in place in Macedonia, whereas in Croatia it is the Croatian Labour Law… Even with the most advanced legislature, companies need to make further effort to ensure the protection of gender rights…
The Association Konekt and Business Confederation, both from Skopje, are implementing the project Fostering Business and human rights principles, which is funded by the European Union and will be implemented in the period 2018-2019. The objective of the project Fostering Business and human rights principles, is to support the economic and social rights in the business sector in Macedonia through the application of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Businesses and Human Rights (UNGPs). The project will help the institutions and employers to link their policies with the UNGPs, the EU integration processes, European Commission’s Strategy on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (2015-2019)…
One of the activities in the project is support in implementation of MAMFORCE in the country… The MAMFORCE METHOD© is a strategic tool aimed at changing the organisational culture and assisting companies in creating a supportive and inclusive work environment based on open communication, trust and appreciation of differences. This ensures conditions for full equality, regardless of specific family needs of various groups in different stages in life…
To help companies to improve the state of human rights in their human resources policies, especially in the area of labour rights, tentatively 5 SMEs will be supported for implementation of the MAMFORCE standard and will get additional guidelines for integration of UNGPs…
The UN Guiding Principles on Human and Business Rights is a good start for gender rights and nondiscrimination, but the real work comes in implementing those rules. Protecting labor rights and gender equality in the workforce are no easy tasks and finding models that work in this area are always a good idea to try to implement even it means “importing them” from abroad. Considering the regional proximity and the joint historical labour laws it was easy to see that the MAMFORCE method developed in Croatia could be a good fit in Macedonia. In Croatia more than 20 companies have acquired the MAMFORCE standard and are a part from the MAMFORCE society…
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