Maternity protection.
Section 8
SEC. 8. Maternity protection.- In any shop, factory, commercial, industrial, or agricultural establishment or other place of labor, the employer shall grant to any woman employed by him who may be pregnant vacation with pay for six weeks prior to the expected date of delivery and for another eight weeks after normal delivery or miscarriage at the rate of not less than sixty per cent of her regular or average weekly wages. The employer shall have the right to require any woman applying for vacation leave with pay under this section to produce a medical certificate stating that delivery will probably take place within six weeks. The vacation shall be extended without pay on account of illness medically certified to arise out of the pregnancy or delivery or miscarriage rendering the woman unfit for work. Prolonged abscence on account of illness incident to pregnancy or delivery or miscarriage shall not be a valid ground for discharge. It shall be the duty of any employer to allow any Woman employed by him who is nursing a child at least one-half hour twice a 'day during her working hours to nurse her child. It shall be the duty of every employer having at least fifteen married women in his employ to establish an adequate nursery near the place of work where they may leave their children, said nursery to be under the supervision of either a registered nurse or a qualified midwife.