Risk benefit during breast-feeding (employees)

The risk benefit during breast-feeding is a contributory benefit within the protective action of Social Security that aims to compensate for the loss of income suffered by the working woman who has just become a mother and whose contract is suspended due to being exposed to a series of unavoidable risks that could harm her health or that of her baby during the time she is feeding her through breast-feeding.

Access to this benefit does not arise directly from the mere existence of risks in a job, but when said risks can specifically affect the health of the breastfeeding woman or that of her baby and cannot be avoided either by adapting the job or by making a change to a different job that is compatible with the woman's status.

When the company cannot avoid the risks for the breast-feeding woman, either by adapting the job or relocating her to a different job, it will suspend the employment contract and at that time the woman may request risk benefit during breast-feeding from her Mutual Fund.

First of all, when the woman who is breastfeeding her baby considers that in her workplace there are agents, procedures or working conditions that may negatively influence her health or that of the baby, she must inform her company since it has the obligation to try to adapt her workplace to her new situation to avoid said risks.

When measures cannot be taken to adapt the workplace, or these measures are insufficient, you must request a medical certificate from the Mutual Fund proving that the conditions of your workplace may negatively influence your health or that of your baby.

Said medical certificate must be brought to the attention of the company so that it can try to change her to a different job that is compatible with her condition. If this change is not possible , to safeguard your health and that of your baby, the company must suspend your employment contract due to risk during breast-feeding.

After having your employment contract suspended for the above reason, you may apply to the Mutual Fund for risk benefit during breast-feeding .