Should Earned Leave Be Given To Employee On Maternity Leave

Hi :
I completely agree the female employee is entitled for accrual of Earned leave while she is on Maternity Leave. My query was just that would she be entitled for the accrual of EL while she has extended her leave essentially as unpaid leave (leave without pay).
Please share your inputs on this particular aspect.
Thanks all for the valuable inputs posted so far.
- Gia

Some of you have have mixed provisions of maternity benefit act, payment of gratuity act, shops & establishment acts and factories act
Period of maternity leave is considered as part of continuous service. When considering applicability of continuous service under gratuity act, one has to study provision under that act, and no other act. As for shops act, every state has its own provisions. In most of the states it is based on days 'worked'. In factories act it is based on 'days work performed' - very specific.

Hi Friends :
I got feedback from some HR experts and just to share the update. Earned Leave is not given to Employees who are on LOP irrespective of whether it is an extension of Maternity Leave or otherwise.
Hope this information will be useful to the forum.
- Gia