Government has firmed up plans to increase the maternity leave for working women from the existing 12 weeks to 26 weeks. Besides, there are also plans to provide 12 weeks of maternity leave to commissioning mothers, who use surrogates to bear a child
The government is set to enhance maternity benefit to 26 weeks from the current 12 weeks through an executive order, labour and employment minister Bandaru Dattareya said on Thursday, 19th May 2016.
“We have a huge task in hand, but we can’t pass bills without reaching a consensus. However, we have decided to go ahead with some of the pro-labor bills through executive orders. We have done it in the case of minimum wage of Rs 10,000 for contract workers. We will do it for extending the maternity benefit as well,” he added.
The proposal also included the point that mothers who bring their child to the creche will get 15 minutes of special leave before and after the lunch hour to take care of the child, he added.
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