According to Section 2 (a) and (b) maternity benefit is applicable to every establishment being a factory, mine or plantation including any such establishment belonging to Government and to every shop or establishment , in which ten or more persons are employed, or were employed, on any day of the preceding twelve months.
Section 5 (2) of the Act provided that, no woman shall be entitled to maternity benefit unless she has actually worked in an establishment of the employer from whom she claims maternity benefit, for a period of not less than eighty days in the twelve months immediately preceding the date of her expected delivery.
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