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Ministry of Labour & Employment
09-March-2017 20:58 IST
Lok Sabha Passes Maternity
Benefits (Amendment) Bill, 2016
Lok Sabha passed today on 9th March,
2017 the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 which inter-alia includes
increasing maternity benefit to woman covered under the Maternity Benefit Act,
1961 from 12 weeks to 26 weeks up to two surviving children in order to allow
the mother to take care of the child during his/her most formative stage,
providing maternity benefit of 12 weeks to Commissioning mother and Adopting
mother, facilitate “work from home” to a mother with mutual consent of the
employee and the employer, making mandatory in respect of establishment having
fifty or more employees , to have the facility of crèche either individually or
as a shared common facility within such distance as may be prescribed by rules
& also to allow four visits to the crèche by the woman daily, including the
interval for rest allowed to her and every establishment to intimate in writing
and electronically to every woman at the time of her initial appointment about
the benefits available under the Act.
The bill was presented in the Lok Sabha by the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and Employment, Shri Bandaru Dattatreya.
The bill was presented in the Lok Sabha by the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and Employment, Shri Bandaru Dattatreya.
The Maternity Benefit(Amendment) Bill, 2016 has already been passed by the Rajya Sabha on 11th August,2016. These changes will have major impact on the health, well-being and growth of the future generation in the Country. It will have positive impact on women’s participation in labour force and will improve the work- life balance of the women workers. The Maternity Benefits (Amendment) Act, 2016 will come into the force only after the President’s assent.
Source | www.pib.nic.in
Highlights of the Bill
Maternity
Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 Passed
MARCH 9, 2017
Parliament has passed the Maternity
Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 as Loksabha passed it on Thursday.
Rajyasabha had passed the Bill during
the winter session of Parliament.
The Maternity Benefit Act 1961
protects the employment of women during the time of her maternity and entitles
her of a ‘maternity benefit’ – i.e. full paid absence from work – to take care
for her child. The act is applicable to all establishments employing 10 or more
persons. The amendments will help 1.8 million (approx.) women workforce in
organised sector.
*Salient
Features of the Bill*
(i) Maternity leave available to the
working women to be increased from 12 weeks to 26 weeks for the first two
children.
(ii) Maternity leave for children
beyond the first two will continue to be 12 weeks.
(iii) Maternity leave of 12 weeks to
be available to mothers adopting a child below the age of three months as well
as to the “commissioning mothers”. The commissioning mother has been defined as
biological mother who uses her egg to create an embryo planted in any other
woman.
(iv) Every establishment with more
than 50 employees to provide for crèche facilities for working mothers and such
mothers will be permitted to make four visits during working hours to look
after and feed the child in the crèche.
(v) The employer may permit a woman to
work from home if it is possible to do so.
(vi) Every establishment will be
required to make these benefits available to the women from the time of her
appointment.
Regards
Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior
Manager @ Library
Khaitan & Co
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