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Notify employment of a pregnant or breastfeeding woman

Service Description

A woman within the meaning of the Maternity Protection Act is any person who is pregnant, has given birth or is breastfeeding. In principle, your employee is free to decide whether and when she informs you of her pregnancy or breastfeeding period. You only have to notify the supervisory authority responsible for you once your employee has informed you of her pregnancy.

Regardless of the type of employment relationship, the Maternity Protection Act also applies to

  • Women who work full-time or part-time,
  • Women in marginal employment (mini-jobs),
  • Women with fixed-term employment contracts or in the probationary period,
  • Women who are in vocational training and trainees,
  • Women with disabilities who are employed in a workshop for disabled people,
  • Women working as volunteers within the meaning of the Youth Voluntary Service Act or the Federal Voluntary Service Act,
  • Women who work as development workers,
  • Women who work as members of a spiritual cooperative, deaconesses or members of a similar community,
  • Women who are employed as home workers,
  • women who are to be regarded as employee-like persons due to their economic independence and
  • Pupils and students.

If you have notified the supervisory authority of an employee's pregnancy, you do not need to make any further notification if your employee returns to work and is breastfeeding.

Process flow

You must inform the health and safety authority in writing or verbally that you employ a pregnant or breastfeeding woman.

This can be done online, by post or for the record.

If you wish to submit the notification online:

NOTE:Thuringia uses this online service from Hamburg. It is therefore temporarily necessary for you to create a company account on the Hamburg portal until the central account from the federal government "My company account based on Elster" is connected.

  • Call up the online service "Notification and applications under the Maternity Protection Act".
  • The online service guides you step by step through the notification process and requests the required evidence.
  • The online service will send your notification to the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection.

If you would like to send the notification by post:

  • Download the form "Notification of employment of a pregnant or breastfeeding woman in accordance with § 27 MuSchG".
  • Complete the form in full, attach the supporting documents and send all documents to the Thüringer Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz.

If you would like to inform the health and safety authority verbally:

  • Then call and make an appointment with the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection.

Who should I contact?

Please contact your responsible regional inspectorate of the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection (TLV), Occupational Health and Safety Department.

Competent authority

Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection (TLV), Occupational Health and Safety Department

Requirements

Your employee has informed you that she is pregnant or breastfeeding.

Which documents are required?

No specific documents need to be submitted. However, if you are submitting an informal application, please note the following information:

The notification must contain the following information:

  • Address of the company, the company department where work is carried out,
  • the name of the expectant mother and
  • the expected date of delivery.

The notification should also contain information about the type of employment. This saves queries. You must always provide the following information:

  • Details of previous job (details of activity and working hours),
  • Information on the risk assessment,
  • details of any protective measures taken.

What are the fees?

There are no fees to pay.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

The employer must inform the Thütinger Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz immediately if a woman has informed him that she is pregnant or breastfeeding, unless he has already informed him of the woman's pregnancy.

Legal basis

Appeal

Forms: yes

Online procedure possible: yes

Written form required: no

Personal appearance required: no

What else should I know?

  • The Maternity Protection Act does not apply to
    • self-employed persons,
    • members of governing bodies and managing directors of legal entities or companies (unless they also work predominantly as employees),
    • housewives and
    • civil servants, judges and soldiers.
  • If you wish to employ your pregnant or breastfeeding employee after 8 p.m., you must apply for this separately. If you wish to employ them on Sundays and public holidays, you must notify the supervisory authority.
  • As part of the general occupational health and safety assessment of working conditions, you must also examine hazards to which a pregnant or breastfeeding woman or her child is or may be exposed and determine whether protective measures under maternity protection law are required. This applies regardless of whether you currently employ a pregnant or breastfeeding woman.
  • If you do not comply with the requirements under maternity protection law, you may be penalized. The supervisory authority will also advise you on maternity protection issues.
  • You may not disclose information about your employee's pregnancy and breastfeeding to third parties without authorization (except to those persons in your company who are entrusted with the execution and implementation of protective measures or who are affected by them).

Author

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Technically approved by

Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection

Professionally released on

10.09.2025

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)

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Competent Authority

Thüringer Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz (TLV) - Regionalinspektion Mittelthüringen

Address
Tennstedter Straße 8/9
99947 Bad Langensalza
Remark: serves as postal address

Delivery address
Linderbacher Weg 30
99099 Erfurt
Telephone
0361 573831-000
E-Mail
Contact us
WWW
Website of the authority
Parking spaces
Parking Place
Besucherparkplatz
Number: 10
Fees: no

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Forms

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Notification of the employment of a pregnant or breastfeeding woman in accordance with Section 27 of the Act for the Protection of Mothers at Work, in Training and at University (MuSchG)