Human Resources – Outsourcing and Contract Services –
Married Women Employees – Sanction of Sixty days Paid Maternity Leave – Orders
– Issued.
FINANCE (HR-I.Plg-Policy) Department
G.O.MS.No.53, Dated:01-05-2018
Read the following:-
1.G.O.Rt.No.4271, Finance (SMPC) Department, dt.01-11-2008.
2.G.O.Ms.No.151, Finance (HR.I Plg. Policy) Department,
dt.08-08-2016
3.Representation of the President, APNGOs Association vide
CMP.No.1148/Spl.CS/
2017,
dt:13.11.2017.
ORDER:
As per the
existing guidelines on outsourcing and contract employment issued in the
references first and second read above, women employees are eligible for 120
days maternity leave without paying remuneration for the said period.
The
President, APNGOs Association in the reference third read above, brought to the
notice of the Government that the unpaid period of maternity leave is adding
more sufferings to the existing troubles of the women employees who are working
on outsourcing and contract basis. The APNGOs Association has requested the
government to consider for grant of at least 60 (Sixty) days of paid Maternity
Leave for two deliveries in respect of the above women employees.
After
careful examination of the matter and taking into view the health of the child
and also the mother, the Government, in partial modification of the existing
guidelines, hereby order that married women employees working on outsourcing or
on contract basis shall be eligible for 60 (sixty) days of paid Maternity Leave
for the first two surviving children.
The paid
maternity leave shall be equivalent to the existing remuneration drawn by the
above women employees. The statutory benefits such as EPF and ESI and other
recoveries wherever admissible shall also be admissible by treating them as On
Duty.
The orders
come into force with immediate effect and closed cases need not be reopened.
The benefit
of above 60 (sixty) days of paid Maternity Leave is admissible to the women
employees working on outsourcing basis and on contract basis.
All the
Secretariat Departments, Heads of Departments, District Collectors shall take
necessary action accordingly.
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