Topic: What the law gives you after a child is born
How does Indonesia mark What the law gives you after a child is born?
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Indonesia's Law No. 4 of 2024 — on the welfare of mother and child in the first thousand days of life, promulgated on 2 July 2024 — is the newest and the most itemised of these seven. Article 4(3) gives every working mother maternity leave of at least the first three months, and up to three months more where a special condition is certified by a doctor; a miscarriage carries a month and a half or whatever a doctor or midwife certifies. Article 5(2) then writes the wages out month by month: full pay for the first three months, full pay for the fourth, and 75% of wages for the fifth and sixth. Article 5(1) adds that a mother exercising those rights may not be dismissed and keeps her entitlements. Putting the length, the percentage and the protection against dismissal into one statute — and spelling out the percentage month by month — is what most distinguishes Indonesia here: elsewhere the law either states only a number of days, or leaves the paying to an insurance fund or to the employer.
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Taiwan's Labour Standards Act gives eight weeks of maternity leave, fully paid after six months of service. Japan's goes further in a different direction: Article 65 forbids an employer to let a woman work for eight weeks after birth — not a right but a prohibition. Brazil's Consolidation of Labour Laws sets 120 days. Indonesia's Law 4 of 2024 sets a floor of three months and a further three if needed, with the wage percentage written out month by month. The American FMLA says in plain words that the leave "may consist of unpaid leave". And India is stranger still: the constitution requires the state to provide maternity relief, in a part the constitution itself says no court may enforce.
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