The CCSU submits maternity & paternity leave proposal to Prime Minister Romeo-Marlin | SMN News

June 3, 2019

PHILIPSBURG:--- On Friday, May 31st, 2019, the Committee of Civil Servants Unions (CCSU) submitted a maternity and paternity leave proposal to Prime Minister Leona Romeo-Marlin in her capacity of Minister of General Affairs.

The members of the CCSU made use of their right stipulated in article 112i of the “Landsverordening materieel ambtenarenrecht” (Lma), to initiate amendments to the current human resource regulations and proposed the establishment of new policies on maternity and paternity leave. This proposal adopts the same number of weeks proposed by Member of Parliament Tamara Leonard.

Both members of the CCSU are of the opinion that the current

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