Issue on Maternity Leave

Chapter1 THE PROBLEM AND THE SUBTOPICS

1.1 INTRODUCTION

Labor Issues has been one of the major concerns of the society not only in the Philippines, but throughout the world. This concerns not only workers in the Rank and File positions but everyone in the Workforce, be it men or women. But unfortunately, women have been the subject of abuse and labor discrimination since time in memorial. Thisencompasses a very vital privilege that every woman deserves to avail - the privilege of bearing life and being not afraid of being incapable of sustaining it.

The inconvenient truth is there are still companies that resolve to terminate female employees who are found to be conceiving. This might be assumed that such institutions engage in this malpractice to evade the responsibility of providing benefits for the pregnant worker which will mean cost for the corporation. And so there was law to govern about this which imposes corresponding sanctions to every violation.

As such that the above reason may be true, the group is not eliminating the probability that there might be circumstances that the problem is with the employees themselves, such as abuse to the corporation's side. Consequently, the group will take every consideration that will make the research as objective as possible.

Thus, the group decided to look on the factors that contribute to the continuous occurrence of the matter. Furthermore lead to the materialization of this study aiming to prove that MATERNITY LEAVE should be executed among all female employees of the company.

1.2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Figure 1.1 Theoretical Frameworks

The above indicates the factors that affect the decision of the company not to implement Maternity benefits for their employees. The theories are as follows:

1. The company finds it costly to pay and give benefits as amended by REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7322 section 1of the labor code of the Philippines.

"(a) That the employee shall have notified her employer of her pregnancy and the probable date of her childbirth which notice shall be transmitted to the SSS in accordance with the rules and regulations it may provide;

"(b) That the payment shall be advanced by the employer in two equal installments within thirty (30) days from the filing of the maternity leave application:

"(c) That in case of caesarian delivery, the employee shall be paid the daily maternity benefit for seventy-eight (78) days;

"(d) That payment of daily maternity benefits shall be a bar to the recovery of sickness benefits provided by this