The first week of August every year is "International Breastfeeding Week". The EOC will broadcast a promotional video on TV and radio tomorrow (2nd). Through three scenarios, the revised "Sex Discrimination Ordinance" will be introduced in June this year. "How to protect Hong Kong women from interference and discrimination while breastfeeding, and to deepen the public's understanding of this law.
The newly amended "Sex Discrimination Ordinance" strengthens the protection of breastfeeding mothers
From June 19 this year, the revised "Sex Discrimination Ordinance" protects all women in Hong Kong from discrimination and harassment based on breastfeeding, covering different areas, including employment; education; provision of goods, facilities and services; Disposal or management of premises; clubs and governments, etc.
According to the above legislation, the definition of breastfeeding covers women who are breastfeeding, breastfeeding, and breastfeeding with their own breastmilk, even if the discrimination or harassment does not occur during the breastfeeding period.
In order to deepen public awareness of the new amendments to this law, the Equal Opportunities Commission will not only launch a subway light box advertisement, but also launch a TV Announcement in the Public Interest and a radio publicity broadcast from tomorrow. Three examples are used to illustrate how breastfeeding women receive services, during their employment, and use facilities. Illegal and discriminatory behaviors that may be encountered at times include a woman who was waiting to leave the restaurant when she was breastfeeding while patronizing a restaurant, a female employee was denied an attendance award by her boss for collecting milk during working hours, and A woman breastfeeding in a shopping mall was stopped by security for indecent reasons.
Equal Opportunities Chairman Zhu Minjian said that the revised legislation is conducive to the establishment of a breastfeeding-friendly environment and workplace, so that breastfeeding women can continue to participate fully and equally in social and economic activities, including continuous employment or re-entry to the workplace during breastfeeding, and Breastfeeding in public places.
The theme of this year's International Breastfeeding Week is sharing responsibility
This year's International Breastfeeding Week has the theme of "Protecting Breastfeeding and Sharing Responsibilities." Zhu agrees that employers, goods, facilities and service providers have the responsibility to protect women from being discriminated against and harassed because of breastfeeding.
In addition to providing proper breastfeeding and breastfeeding facilities and equipment, they should create a friendly environment for breastfeeding mothers, such as formulating written policies to support breastfeeding; implementing flexible work arrangements and changing commuting hours , Provide additional rest links or temporarily deploy to other jobs, etc.
In order to coincide with the Breastfeeding Week, the EOC will launch a continuous online promotion plan on the EOC’s Facebook page from now to the 12th of next month, including inviting Facebook users to write "#我养母乳指乳" or create a slogan , And then take a selfie and upload the photo to the message box to show support for breastfeeding. Netizens can also leave a message to recommend some friendly breastfeeding places.
The EOC will produce a series of picture explanations, supplemented by illustrative examples, and introduce one by one on the Facebook page how the Sex Discrimination Ordinance protects Hong Kong women from discrimination and harassment in breastfeeding.
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