The Federal Supreme Court (STF) should begin to decide this Wednesday (23) whether it is possible to extend the benefit of maternity leave of 180 days to public servants who become single parents of children generated from techniques such as infertility. Vitro and surrogacy.
In this episode of E Tem Mais, Carol Nogueira presents an overview of expectations for the trial in the STF. To describe the possible impacts of the case and the debate on the subject, labor lawyers Fernanda Perregil and Henrique Melo participate in this episode.
The action in the STF discusses the request for an appeal by the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) against the decision of a federal regional court that granted the benefit to a servant of the agency. The INSS claims that the extension of the leave would generate an additional cost to the public coffers and that denying the longer benefit would not represent a lack of assistance to the children, because the father is entitled to paternity leave established by law for five days.
The expectation is that the case, which should serve as a reference for other similar processes, will have an impact not only on the situation of other single parents, but also on the debate on the scope of paternity leave in the country. The short period of leave normally granted to fathers in Brazil often has negative effects on mothers, who are overburdened with childcare and tend to feel the impact of this in their professional lives.
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