Prerequisites
An employee has informed you that she is pregnant or breastfeeding.
Documents required
Your message should include the following information:
- Name and address of the employer, company or training institution
- Name and date of birth of the pregnant or breastfeeding woman who works for you
- the nature of the current activity
Please note
Different responsibilities may arise in the following cases:
- Self-employed
- Members of the executive bodies and managing directors of legal persons or companies (unless they are predominantly employed)
- Housewives
- Female civil servants, judges and soldiers
Regardless of the type of employment relationship, the Maternity Protection Act also applies to:
- Women who work part-time
- Women in marginal employment (mini-jobs)
- Women with fixed-term employment contracts or on probation
- Women in vocational training and interns
- Women with disabilities who work in a workshop for disabled people
- Women who work as volunteers within the meaning of the Youth Volunteer Service Act or the Federal Volunteer Service Act
- Women who work as members of a religious community, deaconesses or members of a similar community in a permanent position or on the basis of a contract of employment for these, even during the period of their extracurricular training there
If you want to employ your pregnant or breastfeeding employee after 8 p.m., you must submit a separate application. If you want to employ her on Sundays and public holidays, you must also inform the relevant authority.
Deadlines
Immediately inform the relevant authority if you employ a pregnant or breastfeeding woman