The Union of Free Trade Unions of Montenegro (USSCG) called on the deputies to vote for amendments to the Law on Social and Child Protection.
USSCG, as they announced, has been running a campaign since May 2013 to protect the vulnerable position of women on the labor market when it comes to maternity.
"This is primarily due to the fact that, in the neoliberal concept of the labor market, our female colleagues who want to achieve motherhood find it increasingly difficult to find employment, as this is one of the key barriers for employers," the USSCG Secretariat said in a statement.
All this, it is added, has influenced the average age of a woman at the time of her first legal relationship to reach 30 years and that we have continuously recorded a drastic drop in the birth rate in the previous two decades.
In addition, as they said from USSCG, women who achieve motherhood and are in a working relationship, every day expose themselves to additional efforts in order to meet work tasks at work and the needs of the family.
"It is precisely this that strengthened us in the belief that an amendment to the Law on Social and Child Protection should be initiated so that a working woman who gives birth to three children and achieves at least 25 years of service, that is, who gives birth to four or more children and achieves at least 15 years of service, enabled the right to lifetime compensation in the amount of 70 percent of the average salary in Montenegro," the announcement says.
That right, as stated, could not be used during the duration of the employment relationship and would exclude the possibility of simultaneously using the right to a pension.
USSCG representatives, in order to support the initiative, spoke with all parliamentary clubs in the Assembly, except for the Democratic Party of Socialists.
"During the discussion, the Initiative was positively evaluated and supported by the majority of parliamentary clubs, with the fact that the Social Democratic Party's Parliamentary Club made the sustainability of this initiative conditional on the amount of financial expenditures for these purposes, which would not affect the sustainability of the Budget," the statement said.
USSCG, as they stated, supports the Amendment Proposal to the Law on Social and Child Protection, which was submitted to the Parliament of Montenegro by MP Aleksandar Damjanović. "And calls on all members of parliament to support the adoption of this law with their vote".
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