Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017

 High lights of Maternity Benefit (amendment) Act 2017 are as under,


A Long awaited Maternity Benefit Act amendment is passed by both the house necessary Notification is appended below

  1. Increase Maternity Benefit from 12 weeks to 26 weeks for 1st & 2nd children, and 12 weeks for more than 2 children.
  2. 12 weeks Maternity Benefit to a Commissioning Mother and adopting mother
  3. Facilitate work from home.
  4. Mandatory Provision of Crèche  to establishments having more than 50 or more total employees.
  5. Every establishment shall intimate in writing and electronically to every women at the time of her initial appointment about the benefits available under the Act.
The Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Gandhi thanked the Minister for Labour and Employment, Shri Bandaru Dattatreya for taking up the demand of lakhs of women across the country and for having steered the Bill through Rajya Sabha as well as the Lok Sabha. In her message to the working women, Smt. Gandhi congratulated the women who are planning to have a child and has stated that the Ministry of Women and Child Development will continue to work for the empowerment of women. 

Location: Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

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