Directive 2010/41/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council stipulates that female self-employed workers and the female spouses and life partners of self-employed workers need to be granted sufficient maternity allowance to enable the interruption of their occupational activity on account of pregnancy or motherhood, for a period of at least 14 weeks.
Direktivom 2010/41/EU Europskog parlamenta i Vijeća propisano je da samozaposlene žene, supruge i životne partnerice samozaposlenih radnika moraju primati dostatni doplatak za majčinstvo koji im omogućuje prekide njihove profesionalne djelatnosti zbog trudnoće ili majčinstva u trajanju od najmanje 14 tjedana.