Now, maternity leave for commissioning, surrogate mothers

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 18

The UT Administration has decided to extend the benefits of maternity leave to the commissioning as well as the surrogate mother.

In a notification, the UT Administration states that both the commissioning mother and the surrogate mother, who are employees of the Administration, will now be allowed to avail maternity leave.

As per the notification, the maternity leave will be admissible to the commissioning mother (the female employee who engages the services of another female to conceive a child with or without the genetic material being supplied by her and her male partner) and also to the surrogate mother (the female employee who bears the child on behalf of another woman either from her own egg fertilised from the other woman, on the same terms and conditions as prescribed for maternity leave admissible to a female employee.

With the decision, both the commissioning mother and the surrogate mother will be entitled to maternity leave with full pay up to 180 days or 26 weeks.