Press
Information Bureau
Government
of India
Ministry
of Labour & Employment
08-May-2017
16:46 IST
Clarification
on Recently Notified Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act,2017
The
Government has notified the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act,2017 on 28th
March,2017 and the provisions of the Amendment Act have come into force with
effect from 1st April,2017, except those relating to crèche facility {Section
4(1)} which would come into force from 01.07.2017.
Keeping
in view queries received from various quarters, the Ministry of Labour &
Employment, on 12.04.2017, had issued certain clarifications on various
provisions of Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017. One of the clarifications
issued by the Ministry stated that the enhanced maternity benefit, as modified
by the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) bill, 2016 can be extended to women who are
already under maternity leave at the time of enforcement of this Amendment
Act.
Having
received further queries and to remove doubts, it is further clarified that it
is mandatory on the part of employers to extend the benefit of enhanced
maternity leave to those women workers who were already on maternity leave on
the date of enforcement of the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act,2017 i.e. as on
01.04.2017.
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