The Supreme Court has ruled that adoptive mothers are entitled to maternity leave regardless of the child's age. A law restricting this ben...

Maternity Leave in India: Not many women know the benefits they get under the Maternity Benefit Act. This includes the maximum number of pa...

The new maternity benefits policy - amongst the first such initiatives in the manufacturing industry - also provides 6 months of flexi work...

The 12-week period of maternity leave will be calculated from the date the child is handed over to the adoptive or commissioning mother.

The move is part of PayPal's continuing efforts to ensure a balanced approach to work and life among its employees in the country.

Edelweiss has introduced a programme — Women Empowered — to ensure that more women come up the pyramid and not really fall out.

The benefits will also include one month of additional paid maternity leave to cover for illness, if any, and three months of unpaid leave ...

The policy also extends to cases of adoption and surrogacy, and provides six weeks of leave for women who have suffered a miscarriage.

Women employees adopting a child can take two months of paid leave for adopting a child of 6 years of age or below.

The duration of paid leave that can be availed for maternity has been increased from 12 weeks to 6 months (180 calendar days).

GSK Consumer Healthcare, the manufacturer of the popular health drink Horlicks, has increased its maternity and adoption leave to six month...

Adobe today announced improvements to its family time-off benefits for its employees in India, to provide better support during the birth o...

Tech giant Intel said it has increased maternity leave benefits to five months and doubled paternity benefits for its employees in India.

The report revealed that 67 per cent women returned to the workforce post their maternity leave in 2014, as compared to 58 per cent in 2012.

After relaxing maternity and paternity policies, Flipkart is now offering an allowance of Rs 50,000 to employees looking to adopt children.

Bringing home your adopted bundle of joy got a lot more joyous with many Indian firms beginning to offer paternity leave, in addition to ma...

Karishma Sharma, an executive with a Bangalore-based IT major, is on an adoption maternity leave for a month.