With India’s population continuously rising, maintaining maternal health is paramount. The Maternity Benefit Act is a piece of legislation enacted in India to protect the rights of working women during pregnancy, childbirth, and after delivery. The act provides for paid leave and several other benefits for women who are expecting or have recently given birth. The importance of the Maternity Benefit Act lies in the fact that it recognizes the unique physical and emotional needs of women during pregnancy and helps to create a supportive work environment for them.
Recent statistics show that in India, only 17% of women have access to paid maternity leave, and the Maternity Benefit Act is a crucial step toward improving this situation. The Hindustan Times ranks 120th out of 190 countries regarding female labor force participation and the Maternity Benefit Act. It aims to address this disparity by enabling women to take time off work to care for their newborns without sacrificing their careers or financial stability.
Let’s discuss this act in detail here.
The Maternity Benefits Act, 1961: Understanding the Policies
The Maternity Benefits Act of 1961 applied to all organizations with ten or more employees and provided maternity benefits to women who had worked there for at least eighty days. Its main provisions included these features.
Leave Duration
Under the Maternity Benefits Act of 1961, a pregnant woman was entitled to a maximum of twelve weeks of maternity leave. This duration included six weeks of leave before the expected delivery date and six weeks after delivery. In case of a miscarriage or medical termination of pregnancy, the woman was entitled to six weeks of maternity leave. The law also allowed for an extension of up to one month in certain circumstances, such as illness or complications arising from the pregnancy or delivery.
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The Limited Liability Partnership (Amendment) Act, 2021 recently got the assent of the Hon’ble President of India.
This Act seeks to amend the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008.
The Act has been brought to ease the regulations in the case of Online Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP) by the decriminalization of certain offenses and introducing some new concepts & provisions in LLPs.
In this article, we are discussing salient features of the Limited Liability Partnership (Amendment) Act, 2021.
Maternity cardigans are one of the basic must-haves in a pregnant woman’s wardrobe or even in a new mother’s closet for many reasons.
Cardigans can be worn to ward off the chill during the cool autumn and winter days, accentuate the beauty of the outfit for the day, and cover the growing baby bump, if you so desire.
A fashionable cardigan with an open front, such as thematernity cardigans offered by SRC Health, is always a stylish choice.
Pair it with the maternity tank top and straight-legged maternity pants with either sandals or boots and you are good to go.
The Supreme Court on Monday heard a plea seeking ex-gratia monetary compensation of Rs 4 lakh or notified ex-gratia monetary compensation to the families of deceased, who have succumbed to the Covid-19 pandemicSenior Advocate S.B.
Upadhyay appeared for the petitioner before the bench of Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice M.R.
He submitted, “We are seeking that giving effect to Section 12, a certificate needs to be issued that death is due to COVID-19… there are cases, where the bodies are being taken from mortuary to cremation ground.
There needs to be a certificate.
There is a letter of March 14, 2020, which says to give benefit under the NDMA Act, the disaster has to be natural one.
COVID was notified as a disaster,” he added.Read More...
