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26-week leave for would-be moms in private sector soon

NEW DELHI: All establishments, including in private sector, will have to provide 26-week maternity leave to their women employees under a new Bill, which the government plans to push in the upcoming monsoon session.



New Delhi, July 1

All establishments, including in private sector, will have to provide 26-week maternity leave to their women employees under a new Bill, which the government plans to push in the upcoming monsoon session, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said today.

While there is already a provision of 26-week or six- month maternity leave for the government employees, most private sector firms offer maximum three months of such leave.

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Besides, these benefits are not provided at all in many smaller establishments. The minister told mediapersons that the new Maternity Benefit Bill, which seeks to enhance maternity leave to 26 weeks from existing 12 weeks, will be shortly taken up by the Cabinet for approval and the ministry will push it for passage in the monsoon session.

He, however, appeared to rule out making it mandatory to provide work-from-home option to the working mothers. “There are certain establishments where they can get (the permission to work from home). But in other establishments they will get the facility of (26 weeks maternity leave) after amendment to the Act,” said Dattatreya.

He was replying to a query about steps being taken by his ministry to promote the concept of work from home to increase women participation in the workforce.

Asked about the paternity leave and other benefits for fathers, the minister said: “The Bill is about mothers and children. It is not about the men.” — PTI

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