vernmentWomen employs Mate Maternity raja 26 weeks karvama aavi
The Maternity Leave Amendment Billpassed by the Lok Sabha which makes a 26-week maternity leave mandatory isregarded as a high water mark for women. It seems like a quantitative leap.
Women working in the organisedsector will now be entitled to paid maternity leave of 26 weeks, up from 12weeks, as Parliament today passed a bill in this regard that will benefit about18 lacs women.
The new law will apply to allestablishments employing 10 or more people and the entitlement will be for onlyup to first two children. For third child, the entitlement will be for only 12weeks.TheMaternity Benefit Bill, 2016 was passed by the Lok Sabha on 10thMarch, months after the Rajya Sabha approved the measure that takes India tothe third position in terms of the number of weeks for maternity leave afterCanada and Norway where it is 50 weeks and 44 weeks, respectively.
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