Lok Sabha Passes Maternity Benefits (Amendment) Bill, 2016
Lok Sabha
passed today on 9th March, 2017 the Maternity Benefit (Amendment)
Bill, 2016 which inter-alia includes increasing maternity benefit to
woman covered under the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 from 12 weeks to 26
weeks up to two surviving children in order to allow the mother to take
care of the child during his/her most formative stage, providing
maternity benefit of 12 weeks to Commissioning mother and Adopting
mother, facilitate “work from home” to a mother with mutual consent of
the employee and the employer, making mandatory in respect of
establishment having fifty or more employees , to have the facility of
crèche either individually or as a shared common facility within such
distance as may be prescribed by rules & also to allow four visits
to the crèche by the woman daily, including the interval for rest
allowed to her and every establishment to intimate in writing and
electronically to every woman at the time of her initial appointment
about the benefits available under the Act.
The bill was presented in the Lok Sabha by the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and Employment, Shri Bandaru Dattatreya.
The Maternity Benefit(Amendment) Bill, 2016 has already been passed by
the Rajya Sabha on 11th August,2016. These changes will have major
impact on the health, well-being and growth of the future generation in
the Country. It will have positive impact on women’s participation in
labour force and will improve the work- life balance of the women
workers. The Maternity Benefits (Amendment) Act, 2016 will come into the
force only after the President’s assent.
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(Release ID :159046)
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