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Suriname: New Legislation on ‘Paid Parental Leave’

www.paho.org: 01/08/2019

A 2019 law introducing social insurance maternity and paternity benefits is in the process of being implemented. The benefits will be administered by the Parental Leave Provision Fund (Fonds Voorzieningen Ouderschapsverlof) under the supervision of the Ministry of Labor. The parliament has adopted a law that gives all women the right to 16 weeks of maternity leave. The law stipulates that working women must be paid during their maternity leave,