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Tag: Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill
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Pushing the envelope for re-employability
A woman employee can avail a maternity break of three months before getting back to work. Well, it is not as easy as it sounds. She may choose to split her break into two halves. In such scenarios, they ask organisations for an additional month of unpaid leave, which is something that most offices readily...
April 6, 2017 -
Parliament passes bill to raise maternity leave to 26 weeks
Women working in the organised sector will now be entitled to paid maternity leave of 26 weeks, up from 12 weeks, as Parliament on Thursday passed a bill in this regard that will benefit about 1.8 million women. The new law will apply to all establishments employing 10 or more people and the entitlement will...
March 9, 2017