An act to provide for family leave for male and female employees, access for the parents of the child to have leave together at the birth of the child or during the essential early months of development and to provide for related matters. Maternity leave shall be of a period of no less than 14 weeks. In the case of multiple births, a female employee shall be entitled to maternity leave for a period not less than 17 weeks. Paternity leave granted to a male employee shall be for a period of not less than 3 weeks and may be taken as a continuous period or be arranged in a manner where the male employee is allowed a period of no less than 2 weeks as he desires within the first 3 months of the birth of the child, and a period of not less than one week before the child is 6 months old.

Established the maternity grant to an amount of $1,260.

This Act makes provision for the protection of employees from sexual harassment in the workplace.

This Bill would give effect to the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and for matters connected therewith.

This Act amends the Domestic Violence (Protection Orders) Act, Cap. 130A to define domestic violence and to make greater provision for the safety of victims of domestic violence and the accountability of perpetrators of domestic violence.

The present Act amends the Sexual Offences Act, Cap. 154, to provide for the circumstances under which the offence of rape is committed by a husband against his wife.

Legal framework for criminalizing the offences of human trafficking and smuggling.

An Act to make better provision for the care and protection of children.

An Act to provide for the granting of protection orders in circumstances surrounding domestic violence and for related matters.

An Act to revise and reform the law relating to sexual crimes.

(Rape) Any person who has sexual intercourse with another person without the consent of the other person and who knows that the other person does not consent to the intercourse or is reckless as to whether the other person consents to the intercourse is guilty of the offence of rape and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.

Section 4 (1) states that a marriage solemnised between persons either of whom is under the age of 16 years is void.

An Act to provide for the grant of maternity leave to female employees and for the protection of employment during such leave. Maternity leave shall be of a period of not less than twelve (12) weeks and shall be so arranged that the employee is allowed (a) such period, not exceeding six (6) weeks, as she desires before the expected date of confinement; and (b) a period of not less than six (6) weeks from the date of confinement.

Established the conditions for the maternity benefit and the maternity grant, financed through National Insurance. Maternity benefit shall be granted in the case of the pregnancy and confinement of a woman who is an insured person, with a daily rate of 100% of the average insurable weekly earning of the insured person, divided by 6.

An Act to establish a system of national insurance and social security for Barbados providing payments by way of, amongst others, maternity benefit. It is defined as periodical payments in the case of the pregnancy or confinement of an insured woman. Maternity grant is defined as a payment in the case of the pregnancy or confinement of a woman who (i) is not an insured person, or (ii) is an insured person that does not satisfy the conditions for the receipt of maternity benefit, but whose spouse is an insured person.