Summary / Citation: It is prohibited to arrange for female staff and workers during the period of breast-feeding their babies of less than one year old to engage in work with Grade III physical labour intensity as prescribed by the State or other labour forbidden to women during their breast-feeding period, or to work in extended working hours or to work night shifts.
(Labour Law, 63)
Employers shall grant women employees with less than one year infant feeding breaks of 1 hour counted as an working hour every day. Feeding breaks of women workers who have given birth to more than one child shall be extended by one hour for each additional baby born in a single birth.
(Special Rules on the Labor Protection of Female Employees, Art. 9)
Employers employing a relatively large number of women workers shall, establish facilities such as women workers’ resting lounge, a resting lounge for pregnant women, a feeding room, and other facilities to properly alleviate the special difficulties encountered by their women workers in physiological, health, feeding an child-care aspects.
(Special Rules on the Labor Protection of Female Employees , Art. 10)
An employing unit shall not assign female employees in lactation to engage in the operations in which toxic substances are used.
(Regulations on Labor Protection in Workplaces Where Toxic Substances Are Used, Art. 7)
• Special Rules on the Labour Protection of Female Employees (Order of the State Council (No. 619)). (Arts. 9-10)
• Regulations on Labour Protection in Workplaces Where Toxic Substances Are Used (Adopted at the 57th Executive Meeting of the State Council on April 30, 2002, promulgated by Decree No.352 of the State Council of the People's Republic of China) (Art. 7)
• Labour Law dated 5 July 1994. (Art. 63)
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