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Pregnancy and working

Yes, you can! Register your pregnancy in the My CM app and receive exclusive benefits and practical tips!

  • Help with important documents: when do you need to take care of what? CM will send you a notification in due time.
  • Don't miss out on any benefits: from maternity care to birth gifts: get what you're entitled to.
  • Essential tips: Did you know you can apply for a starting amount for your child? Get all the handy tips after registering.

 

  • Night work and overtime are prohibited.
  • The law provides for maternity leave and removal from work (if working conditions pose health risks).

If the work situation poses health risks for you or your child, the occupational physician may decide that you are no longer allowed to work in those circumstances.

The employer must check whether alternative employment without health risks is possible. If that is not the case, you must stop the work completely.

Work removal is possible both during pregnancy and after birth (up to a maximum of five months after delivery). Its duration is determined by the occupational physician.

On the page about work removal you find how to apply for benefits during a period of work removal.

If the occupational physician does not allow you to resume work because you are breastfeeding , you fall under the work removal scheme and therefore receive a benefit from CM, also known as breastfeeding leave .

If you decide to stay at home to breastfeed, you are not entitled to a refund from CM. In this case, you stay at home without pay or you can fall back on a time credit system, which can be applied for through the RVA and the unemployment institutions.

A period of work removal can only be granted if there is a contract between employer and employee. If the contract is terminated , the removal of work and therefore also the benefits from CM automatically come to an end. If you have no other job, you must register with an unemployment institution in order to have a replacement income.

The situations below involve partial work removal .

  • You work for 1 employer and are assigned alternative work or you are only allowed to continue part of your regular work, which means you suffer a loss of wages.
  • You work for 2 employers: at one you have to stop work because it poses risks to you and your child; with the other you can continue working because there are no health risks.
  • As an employee, you also have an independent activity, but you have to stop work as an employee because it poses risks to you and your child. If you wish to continue your self-employed activity, you must ask permission from CM's consulting physician.
  • During your period of work removal, you start another, new activity (e.g. flexi-job). Please note: this often has a major (negative) impact on your benefits.

Learn more about these situations on the page about work removal.

As a pregnant employee, you may, with full pay, be absent from work to have pregnancy examinations carried out. This provided that:

  • the investigations cannot take place outside working hours;
  • the employer has been informed in advance;
  • a medical certificate confirms the absence.