Pregnant self-employed women often have to work until shortly before delivery and even shortly afterward. This is a major problem, not only in physically demanding jobs, but especially in those (symbolic photo). (Photo: © levstudio/123RF.com)
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June 2023
All parliamentary groups in the Bundestag's Petitions Committee voted to forward the petition "Maternity Protection for Self-Employed Pregnant Women" to the federal government for consideration. This is the highest vote.
Pregnant employees and self-employed women should be treated equally when it comes to maternity protection. A petition from the Association "Maternity Protection for All!" The Petitions Committee of the Bundestag joined on 24 June 2023. Members of all parliamentary groups voted unanimously for the Petition "Equal rights in maternity protection for self-employed pregnant women from 6 May 2022" to Consideration of the Federal Government .
"This is the highest vote in a petition process," is glad Master carpenter Johanna RöhShe initiated the issue and the petition while pregnant with her daughter in early 2022 and is the association's board spokesperson.
More about Johanna Röh's concerns read here
"After it has been voted on in the Petitions Committee, the petition formally goes to the plenary session of the Bundestag. It is then called up at a session of the Bundestag and voted on by the Bundestag present," explains master carpenter Johanna Röh on Instagram.
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"The unity with which the parties stand behind our cause will even make it possible Speech in the Bundestag on maternity protection for the self-employed "This is expected to happen in mid-June," Röh continued.
"After that, the President of the Bundestag Bärbel Bas In Chancellor Olaf Scholz our petition and the recommendation of the Petitions Committee directly." The entrepreneur reports that the federal government has six weeks after the vote in the Bundestag to announce what it will do regarding maternity protection for the self-employed.
In the petition, which has already in a public meeting of the Petitions Committee on 26 October 2022 It states, among other things, that pregnancy must not pose a threat to the existence of self-employed persons or lead to inequality of opportunity in the labor market.
"Especially for female founders, female bosses, those working in investment-intensive industries, and for the self-employed in physically demanding professions, instruments must be created to prevent pregnancy-related business closures. For this reason, the European regulations on maternity protection for self-employed women must be implemented in Germany."
Family and professional development must be made possible regardless of gender. Johanna Röh and her fellow campaigners demand that in the case of sick leave due to pregnancy-related problems Sickness benefit from the first day of sick leave is paid.
It should also there are no deductions from sick pay, It is stated that sickness benefit should be calculated on the basis of the amounts paid and not on the basis of lost income. Furthermore, according to Johanna Röh, pregnant self-employed people should receive a fully paid maternity leave The maximum amount currently granted to pregnant self-employed people, which is also offset against sick pay, is completely inadequate given the ongoing private and business costs.
Johanna Röh is committed to Compensation payments for expectant mothers to include pregnant self-employed people in professions where, due to the job description, the employment ban for employees applies. A system of farm assistants, modeled on agriculture, must be established to provide unbureaucratic and free assistance to businesses that lack the labor of a pregnant entrepreneur, the petition states.
"The Petitions Committee is Strengthening the start-up culture is an outstanding concern", states the justification for the resolution recommendation. The members of parliament are aware of the sometimes considerable difficulties, as impressively demonstrated in the petition, which self-employed women in particular face when trying to combine professional independence, pregnancy and family. A good start-up culture necessarily requires that self-employment, pregnancy and equal support and care for one's own children are not mutually exclusive.
This is also a question of social and economic equality for women, the proposal states. Self-employed mothers also send an important signal to girls and women to choose self-employment themselves.
The current legal framework only meets the requirements of a modern entrepreneurial culture that takes into account the needs of women who decide to have their own children to a limited extent, the members of parliament find. Therefore, a comprehensive review of the legal framework required.
Source: hib; "Maternity Protection for All"
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