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Appendix VII

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THE PHILIPPINES

Labour Code of the Philippines 1974 (Third Edition, 1977)

Article 133. Maternity leave benefits

(a) Every employer shall grant to any pregnant woman employee who had rendered an aggregate service of at least six (6) months for the last twelve (12) months, maternity leave of at least two (2) weeks prior to the expected date of delivery and another four (4) weeks after normal delivery or abortion, with full pay based on her regular or average weekday wages. The employer may require from any woman employee applying for maternity leave the production of a medical certificate stating that delivery will probably take place within two (2) weeks.

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The maternity leave shall be extended without pay on account of illness medically certified to arise out of the pregnancy, delivery, abortion, or miscarriage, which renders the woman unfit for work, unless she has earned unused leave credits from which such extended leave may be charged.

(c)

The maternity leave provided in this Article shall be paid by the employer only for the first four (4) deliveries by a woman.

SINGAPORE

Employment Act of 1968

Section 95

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, every female employee shall be entitled to absent herself from work during the four weeks immediately before and the four weeks immediately after a confinement and for such periods (hereafter in this Part referred to as the "benefit period") she shall be entitled to receive payment from her employer at her ordinary rate of pay.

(2) A female employee who has worked for an employer for less than one hundred and eighty days within the period of one year immediately preceding the notice required under subsection (1) of section 99 of this Act shall not be entitled to any payment during the benefit period.

(3) Where a female employee has worked in her employment for any day during the period of four weeks immediately before her confinement she shall be entitled to receive in addition to her ordinary rate of pay for that day an amount that is equivalent to a day's pay or to absent herself from work on another day at the end of the benefit period.

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(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section or any collective agreement or award to the contrary, female employee shall not be entitled to any payment during the benefit period for any confinement when at the time of the confinement she has two or more surviving children.

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