Minister lied: There are zero complaints against mothers to breastfeed. Abuse cases only by companies

Cite and ACT confirm that there is no record of abuse by mothers, after the minister of labor has guaranteed that the government “has knowledge of many practices” of these abuses without data to support it.

There is exactly zero abuse records From the working mothers in the use of dismissal for breastfeeding, confirms the chairman of the Commission for Equality at Work and Employment (CITE) to.

The Authority for Occupational Conditions (ACT) confirmed the same: in the use of the dismissal for breastfeeding, it recorded no abuse by working mothers In the last 5 years.

In fact, since 2021, it has only been registered 23 defaults, but they were all by companieswhich resulted in fines or warnings. Of these 23 companies that disregarded the Breastfeeding Law – which acts reduced to workers with breastfeeding children – 10 resulted in fines and 13 in warnings. This year, CITE has received only one complaint of violation of the right to dismiss.

What do you say and what the government wants

The government wants to limit the dismissal for breastfeeding to the two years of age of the child by presenting a medical certificate. Currently, the law does not provide a limit to the breastfeeding period.

The Minister of Labor, Maria do Rosário da Palma Ramalho,: We are aware of many practices in which, in fact, children seem to be breastfed to give the worker a small time, which is two hours a day that the employer pays, until they walk in primary school ”, and that it is necessary to define a“ goal ”, because, in their opinion, the child“ should eat soup and other things ”.

However, the government admitted that to concrete about these abuses in breastfeeding.

The Minister of the Presidency, António Leitão Amarostressed that the revision of the labor law “will be” a reform “favorable to women, young people and the family”, contrary to criticism of the content of the proposal.

“It will surely be a package and a favorable work reform and that defends the interest of all, the younger ones in particular, and surely women, who as they know, still have levels of remuneration and inequality in labor market conditions,” said Leitão Amaro.

“It’s much more and quite different from the reading that many tried to do. [a reforma] It is important, and brings more flexibility that benefits workers and employers. Especially benefits the younger ones, who today in Portugal have an unemployment level that is three times higher than average unemployment, a level of precariousness between three or four times higher than the market average and high emigration levels. Young people have been the unhappy adjustment variable and consequence of policy and unbalanced work legislation, ”he said.

AD MEO Sebastião Bugalho It also came to defend the proposal this Thursday. “Labor reform will protect mothers from excessive bureaucracy and constant suspicions,” he said.