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Maternity protection

Scope: Health and safety, Working at UnInsubria
Recipients: Students, Graduates, Staff
Access methods: Helpdesk

The service enables personnel to benefit from the protections provided for under current legislation. These protections also apply to female workers who have adopted or fostered a child, up to seven months of age.

In order to ensure the full effectiveness of the protection measures, the personnel concerned must notify their pregnancy in a timely manner.

Female workers at risk of exposure to ionising radiation (through work activities involving the handling of radioactive materials and/or the use of radiation-emitting equipment) are required to report their pregnancy as soon as it is confirmed.

The Safety Office provides the necessary protection services; all administrative and financial aspects (e.g. suspension of allowances and grants) must be managed by the relevant administrative offices.

Who the service is intended for

The protection measures are intended for the following categories of personnel:

Academic and technical-administrative staff:

  • Teaching staff
  • Technical-administrative staff

Non-permanent personnel:

  • PhD students
  • Postgraduate students
  • Graduate students
  • Research grant holders
  • University scholarship holders
Service features – Teaching and technical-administrative staff

All information and forms relating to pregnancy notification and requests for flexibility measures are available on the Intranet.

Access is restricted and users will be required to log in using their University credentials.

For further information, see Maternity Protection
Service features – Non-permanent staff.

The notification, accompanied by the original medical certificate, must be submitted to the Safety Office by completing the Pregnancy Notification Form, available in the “Useful Forms” section.

Maternity leave starts from the seventh month of pregnancy and ends two months after the birth.

It is possible to request to continue working until the eighth month, with the leave ending four months after the birth; or until the end of the pregnancy, with the leave being extended to five months after the birth.

In both cases, it is necessary for the specialist doctor of the National Health Service or with it (one's own gynecologist) and the Competent Doctor to certify that this choice does not harm the health of the pregnant woman and the unborn child.

The request for flexibility, accompanied by a communication from the head of the relevant structure (Department/Institute Director) certifying that it is compatible with the planned work activity during the eighth/ninth month of gestation for the employee concerned, must be sent, together with the medical certificates, no later than the sixth month of pregnancy to the Security Office, using the Request for flexibility on maternity leave form, available in the ‘Useful forms’ section.

Female doctors in specialised training at the Ospedale di Circolo must request flexibility by the 7th month of pregnancy directly to the relevant offices of the host institution and submit the appropriate request to the Postgraduate Office.

Useful forms

For information

UFFICIO SICUREZZA

Varese
Via Ravasi, 2 
Phone: +39 0332 21 9603 - 9317 - 9051 

Como
Via Valleggio, 11 
Phone: +39 031 238 9346

Email: prevenzione.sicurezza@uninsubria.it