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(b) Protect women against discrimination and from violation of their
        rights by private corporations, entities, and individuals; and
               (c) Promote and fulfill the rights of women in all spheres, including
        their rights to substantive equality and non-discrimination.
        Women’s Right to Health. - (a) Comprehensive Health Services. –
        HEADWAY CAPS INTERNATIONAL CO.,INC. shall, at all times, provide
        for a comprehensive, culture-sensitive, and gender-responsive health ser-
        vices and programs covering all stages of a woman’s life cycle and which
        addresses the major causes of women’s mortality and morbidity: Provided,
        That in the provision for comprehensive health services, due respect shall
        be accorded to women’s religious convictions, the rights of the spouses
        to found a family in accordance with their religious convictions, and the
        demands of responsible parenthood, and the right of women to protection
        from hazardous drugs, devices, interventions, and substances.
        Special Leave Benefits for Women
               A woman employee having rendered continuous aggregate em-
        ployment service of at least six (6) months for the last twelve (12) months
        shall be entitled to a special leave benefit of two (2) months with full pay
        based on her gross monthly compensation following surgery caused by
        gynecological disorders.


                                   PART VIII
             THE EXPANDED BREASTFEEDING PROMOTION
                                 ACT OF 2009


               HEADWAY CAPS INTERNATIONAL CO.,INC. adopts rooming-in
        as a company policy  to encourage,  protect and support the practice  of
        breastfeeding. It shall create an environment where basic physical, emo-
        tional, and psychological needs of mothers and infants are fulfilled through
        the practice of rooming-in and breastfeeding







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