Circular DH/8 D/87 on maternity or adoption leave for and authorized absences by career and non-career employees of the establishments referred to in Section 2 of Law No. 86-33 of 9 January 1986 laying down regulations applicable to staff in the public service in the hospital sector, 7 October 1987.
This Circular is addressed by the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment of France to the regional and departmental authorities responsible for health and social affairs and repeals various earlier Circulars on the same subject.  It describes a group of measures within the framework of government policy, relating to, among other things: reducing pregnancy-related risks by associating the occupational physician with measures to protect pregnant women, in particular, concerning the fitness of a pregnant woman for her occupation; entitling pregnant women to a leave of absence from the date of declaration of pregnancy in the case of pregnancies with pathological evolution; and improving the arrangements for leave of absence for pregnancy and birth which was hitherto conditional on obtaining the favorable opinion of the occupational physician, in particular with regard to according flexible working hours during pregnancy and leave of absence for prenatal examinations.  It is also recalled, in connection with leave of absence, that administrations having appropriate facilities for baby-minding must enable the mother to breast feed her infant, allowing her leave of absence for this purpose for one hour per day, to be taken at two times during the day.
D001695:Biology; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004651:Employment; D005060:Europe; D005602:France; D006262:Health; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors
Biology; Breast Feeding--legal aspects; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Employment--legal aspects; Employment--women; Europe; France; Health; Infant Nutrition; Legislation; Macroeconomic Factors; Maternity Benefits--legal aspects; Mediterranean Countries; Microeconomic Factors; Nutrition; Population; Population Characteristics; Pregnant Women; Risk Factors; Western Europe