Dominican men could be absent from work to accompany their wives for almost three weeks postpartum, by mandate of a law.
And it is that the deputy Jose Horacio Rodriguez submitted a project that would create the 21-day paternity leave law, by modifying five articles of the Labor Code 16-92.
The changes to labor legislation are set out in articles 54, 237, 238 and 239. “Today the bill that we have proposed to create 21-day paternity leave passed the Labor Commission.
We advance! Said the legislator, happy because in the first session of this Second Ordinary Legislature, the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies put his initiative on the agenda and sent it to the Labor Commission for study.
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The project seeks to get men involved and help women from the birth of the baby up to three weeks, because the mothers, who have 14 weeks postpartumThey are going through a period of a lot of work and emotional pressure.
Rodríguez stated that the law grants Dominican men two postpartum days, which suggests that early childhood care is an exclusive responsibility of women. Social security will pay for the license they have 13 Latin American countries.
He indicated that to guarantee the basic needs of the population, as well as to leave behind patronage practices in Dominican politics, it is necessary to work on the strengthening of State institutions, “to prevent people in a situation of social exclusion from being easy prey for bad politicians who capitalize on poverty with gifts and alms, which damage the social self-esteem of the country, causing distrust of citizens towards their representatives”.
