Friends,
PFA much awaited Manternity Benefit (Amendment) Act 2017 notified on 28.3.2017. Salient features of the amendment are:
a) increase the maximum period of maternity benefit from the existing 12 weeks to 26 weeks in case of women who have less than two surviving children and in other cases, the existing period of 12 weeks maternity benefit shall continue;
b) to extend the maternity benefit to a "commissioning mother" and "adopting mother" and they shall be entitled to 12 weeks maternity benefit from the date the child is handed over;
c) to facilitate "work from home" to a mother by inserting an enabling provision;
d) to make it mandatory in respect of establishment having 50 or more employees, to have the facility of creches either individually or as a shared common facility within such distance as may be prescribed by rules and also to allow four visits to the creche by the woman daily, including the interval for rest allowed to her;
e) every establishment shall intimate in writing and electronically to every woman at the time of her initial appointment about the benefits available under the Act.
Thanks
From India, Malappuram
1444PFA much awaited Manternity Benefit (Amendment) Act 2017 notified on 28.3.2017. Salient features of the amendment are:
a) increase the maximum period of maternity benefit from the existing 12 weeks to 26 weeks in case of women who have less than two surviving children and in other cases, the existing period of 12 weeks maternity benefit shall continue;
b) to extend the maternity benefit to a "commissioning mother" and "adopting mother" and they shall be entitled to 12 weeks maternity benefit from the date the child is handed over;
c) to facilitate "work from home" to a mother by inserting an enabling provision;
d) to make it mandatory in respect of establishment having 50 or more employees, to have the facility of creches either individually or as a shared common facility within such distance as may be prescribed by rules and also to allow four visits to the creche by the woman daily, including the interval for rest allowed to her;
e) every establishment shall intimate in writing and electronically to every woman at the time of her initial appointment about the benefits available under the Act.
Thanks
From India, Malappuram
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Maternity Benefit Amendment Act 2017_03.04.2017 .pdf