Other elements of the proposal include the principle of full pay during the 18 weeks, with a possibility for member states to introduce a ceiling that must not be below sickness pay; the right for women coming back from maternity leave or already during maternity leave to ask their employer to adapt their working patterns and hours; and the right to return to the same job or an equivalent post.

2. For the purpose of calculating notional income for the income-related sickness compensation and activity compensation in accordance with Chapter 8 of Lag (1962:381) om allmän försäkring (the National Insurance Act), the following shall apply: a) where the insured person, during the reference period, has also been subject to the legislation of one or more other Member States on account of activity as an employed or self-employed person, income in the Member State(s) concerned shall be deemed to be equivalent to the insured person's average gross income in Sweden during the part of the reference period in Sweden, calculated by dividing ...[+++]the earnings in Sweden by the number of years over which those earnings accrued; b) where the benefits are calculated pursuant to Article 40 of this Regulation and persons are not insured in Sweden, the reference period shall be determined in accordance with Chapter 8(2) and (8) of the abovementioned Act as if the person concerned were insured in Sweden.

2. For the purpose of calculating notional income for the income-related sickness compensation and activity compensation in accordance with Chapter 8 of Lag (1962:381) om allmän försäkring (the National Insurance Act), the following shall apply: a) where the insured person, during the reference period, has also been subject to the legislation of one or more other Member States on account of activity as an employed or self-employed person, income in the Member State(s) concerned shall be deemed to be equivalent to the insured person's average gross income in Sweden during the part of the reference period in Sweden, calculated by dividing ...[+++]the earnings in Sweden by the number of years over which those earnings accrued; b) where the benefits are calculated pursuant to Article 40 of this Regulation and persons are not insured in Sweden, the reference period shall be determined in accordance with Chapter 8(2) and (8) of the abovementioned Act as if the person concerned were insured in Sweden.

3. For the purpose of calculating notional income for income-based sickness compensation and income-based activity compensation in accordance with Chapter 8 of Lag (1962:381) om allmän försäkrings (the National Insurance Act), the following shall apply:

The European Code of Social Security lays down standards and sets minimum protection thresholds to be guaranteed by the parties in areas such as medical care, sickness benefits, old-age pensions, allowances in the event of industrial accidents and industrial diseases and disablement allowances. It has yet to be ratified by Austria.

One of the two things in policy that had probably the biggest positive impact on health in Saskatchewan in the last decade of the last century — and it is not about closing hospitals — was when Saskatchewan implemented a program where low-income families would still have health, prescription and dental benefits for their children.