The Amendment Act received the assent of President of India on 27th March, 2017.
The provisions are effective from 1st April 2017.
Salient Features of the Act:
i) Maternity leave available to the working women increased from 12 weeks to 26 weeks for the first two children.
(ii) Maternity leave for children beyond the first two 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, which shall also include the interval for rest allowed to her.
(v) The employer may permit a woman to work from home after availing of the maternity benefit, if it is possible to do so and for such period and on such conditions as the employer and the woman may mutually agree.’’
(vi) 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.
From India, Thana
59The provisions are effective from 1st April 2017.
Salient Features of the Act:
i) Maternity leave available to the working women increased from 12 weeks to 26 weeks for the first two children.
(ii) Maternity leave for children beyond the first two 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, which shall also include the interval for rest allowed to her.
(v) The employer may permit a woman to work from home after availing of the maternity benefit, if it is possible to do so and for such period and on such conditions as the employer and the woman may mutually agree.’’
(vi) 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.
From India, Thana
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Maternity Benefit Amendment Act 2017_03.04.2017 .pdf