🇧🇷How does Brazil mark What the law gives you after a child is born?

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Brazil's maternity leave is 120 days, set out in Article 392 of the Consolidation of Labour Laws: a pregnant employee is entitled to 120 days of leave without loss of her job or her salary. Paragraph 1 of the same article lets her choose when it starts — on a medical certificate, the departure from work may fall anywhere between the 28th day before the birth and the birth itself, so when to begin is her decision and not the employer's. There is also a route upward: Law 11,770 of 2008 created the Citizen Company Programme, under which a company that joins may extend the leave by a further 60 days, for 180 in total, provided the employee applies before the end of the first month after the birth; the same extension applies to those who adopt or obtain judicial custody for adoption. Brazil therefore runs a statutory floor that covers everyone and, above it, a voluntary extension driven by a tax incentive.