O direito à proteção na parentalidade

Abstract

This work aims at demonstrating the importance of updating and adjusting Section V of Chapter III,Title III of the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), which provides for the "protection of motherhood", to "protection of parenthood." The goal is to achieve legitimate rights of men and women. These are, for instance, paid parental leave and the guarantee of employment for both the workers in order to effectively meet equal employment opportunities and treatment in the workplace; the need to reconcile work and family life; the establishment of closer relations between parents and children, as well as with the family, during the first months of a child s birth. This change is built on fundamental principles of the Federative Republic of Brazil, which constitutes a Democratic and Social State of Law. Among them, the principle of human dignity, considering the working father and mother and the child, besides workers citizenship and social value of work. All of them require that should be built, as fundamental objectives of the State: a free society with justice and solidarity, the promotion of the common good, no kind of prejudice at all, and the realization of fundamental rights and guarantees, including social rights, aiming to materialize equality for all, which provides freedom. Besides granting equal working conditions, providing protection in parenthood for working men and women, make both parents responsible for raising, feeding and upbringing the child, natural or adoptive. Furthermore, it makes the society accountable for the continuity of the human race, value family unit and the proper development of the child: worker and citizen-to-be in the very near future. Considering the above, we present a bill proposing the amendment and addition of articles and paragraphs to Section V of Chapter III, Title III of the National Labor Code (CLT)