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- NICU care can cost Rs 5,000-10,000 per day: Why parents should know about newborn coverage and its sub-limits in health insuranceParents buy maternity cover for delivery, but the bigger financial risk is complications after birth.
- Maternity benefit also covers those already on leave: Labour MinistryThe Labour Ministry today clarified that the employees already on maternity leave will be eligible for enhanced paid leave under the amende...
- RIL introduces 12-week paid leave for 'commissioning' mothersThe 12-week period of maternity leave will be calculated from the date the child is handed over to the adoptive or commissioning mother.
- Maternity bill makes startups hire men over women: SurveyA poll conducted by the LocalCircles suggests many startups and small enterprises may prefer to hire men over women with the passage of the...
- Parliament passes Maternity Benefit Bill to provide 26-weeks paid leave, crèche in officeHowever, a woman with two or more children will get only 12 weeks. In case a woman adopts a child below three months, she will be given 12 ...
- Consumer Protectiom Bill, Maternity Benefit Bill, GST may be cleared in this Budget sessionConsumer Protection Bill, that seeks to make the act of misleading advertisement punishable is another bill expected to receive attention i...
- Government to move maternity leave bill in Lok Sabha tomorrow"Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya will move the Bill tomorrow in the Lok Sabha to amend the Maternity Benefit Act," a senior official sai...
- Enhanced maternity, paternity policy at nascent stage: SurveyInterestingly, around 48.79 per cent respondents agree that paternity leave policy benefits would be just another form of 'paid leaves' to ...
- Government mulling maternity benefit for women in unorganised sectorThe ministry has geared up to provide this sustenance to women in unorganised sector after Rajya Sabha passed the Maternity Benefit Bill 20...
- Government plans maternity benefit for about 1.8 million women in informal sectorOnce approved by the Lok Sabha in the Winter Session of Parliament, due in another three months, it would benefit about 1.8 million women i...
- Rajya Sabha passes Bill to raise maternity leave to 26 weeksAs per the proposed amendments, maternity leave for women working in both private and public sector will be enhanced to 26 weeks from the c...
- #LeanIn: Maternity Bill passed in RS, now women to get 6 months offThe amended bill also propose 12 weeks of maternity leave to commissioning mothers who use surrogates to bear a child.
- Cabinet clears amendment to Maternity Benefits, Factories ActMaternity Benefit Act, 1961, protects the employment of women during the time of her maternity and entitles her of a full paid absence from...
- India can ratify ILO conventions with new child labour laws: Bandaru DattatreyaThe government, among other issues, is in the process of increasing maternity leave to 26 weeks from existing 14 week under the Maternity B...
- Coming soon! 6 months of maternity leave for private sector employeesWhile there is already a provision of six-month maternity leave for govt employees, most private sector firms offer a maximum of three mont...
- RS passes Bill to enhance maternity benefitsWomen working in factories, shops and plantation will get enhanced maternity benefits once Parliament passes amendments in the law.
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