Recently the Supreme Court has given a show of support to mothers who enjoy their breastfeeding permit. This is specifically the case of large-scale workers, who could so far see their salary reduced in case of requesting a reduction in working hours or accumulating their lactation hours.
It happened that, in these cases, in some companies it was considered that women should only receive their base salary, but they were deprived of supplements such as those that are reflected as productivity, fulfillment of objectives or specific functions.
However, the battle for these mothers has been won and the sentence makes it very clear that enjoying breastfeeding leave can never be a cause of reduction in the usual salary.
"It is necessary to understand that any interpretation of the absence of concrete regulation of the remuneration of the lactation permit, both in the Statute and in the Convention, which implies economic loss for the worker is contrary to the spirit of the law"
These small victories are gradually adding up. There are still many mothers who, when asking breastfeeding permit or pretend to take it cumulatively, suffer workplace harassment, layoffs and even, that seems incredible, problems with their own partners who do not understand that the rights of mothers and children are the basis of social justice.
Myself when I asked, in my old job, these hours, I ran into serious problems. From mockery for breastfeeding more than four months, to the inability to find a decent place in the workplace to use permission simply to make extractions.
However, I want to remind the readers that the right to breastfeeding permission does not depend on whether the child is breastfed or takes a bottle, very wisely, since the need for contact with the mother is equally indispensable in both cases.
Of course, this reduction was reflected in my salary, which, although small, was a comparative grievance with my colleagues. But the worst was not the money, although that also angered me, but the pressure I suffered from the company and my colleagues.
This Supreme Court ruling in support of breastfeeding leave hours I appreciate it very positively for women workers in large stores, although there is still a lot to be done in this regard. Has something similar happened to you?
