"prestación por maternidad" in English

Payments such as Germany's maternity allowance were not included.

This extends 14 weeks of maternity provision to up to 170 weeks.

Austria has 16 weeks of maternity provision.

Maternity provision is about health.

We cannot allow the important matter of maternity provision to be diluted by an extension of parental leave.

We have a responsibility to women who participate in working life to make maternity provision justifiable.

I also believe that maternity benefit must be paid not only to mothers who have worked during the last 12 months prior to the birth.

I voted for the Damião report, Mr President, partly because I voted for the amendment which stipulated that women on maternity leave should receive a full allowance.

I voted for the Damião report, Mr President, partly because I voted for the amendment which stipulated that women on maternity leave should receive a full allowance.

The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs has called for 18 weeks' maternity provision, which is four weeks more than was amicably agreed in Germany.

In this regard, I believe that, on the one hand, maternity protection is vital, based on the entitlement to a minimum of 14 weeks' leave and to maternity benefit.

The Member States have organised their maternity provision in very different ways, in some cases, supplementing this with parental leave to include fathers.