(ANSA) - Rome, December 13 - Women who want to work until
their ninth month of pregnancy and take their full five-month
maternity leave afterwards will be able to file a request with
the national social security institute, INPS, prior to two
months before their due date.
INPS made this clarification in a notice circulated on
regulations contained in the 2019 budget law, which provides for
this possibility.
The woman's general practitioner will have to certify that
doing so will not affect the health of the mother or that of the
child.
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