How Does the New ESIC Circular on Maternity Benefits Affect HR and Claimants?

After the amendment in ESI (Central) Rules, 1950 relating to the enhancement of Maternity Benefit, ESIC has issued instructions on the above subject via their circular dated 06/02/2017. The online link to the same is mentioned as follows for the kind information of seniors and experts in this esteemed forum: http://esic.nic.in/backend/writeread...97c64ba4b4.pdf.

I hope the circular may be of some help to the HR people as well as claimants of the said benefit.

Sir, the Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India, being the appropriate authority, has now enforced the provisions of the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017. With the exception of "work from home," amendments have been enforced with effect from 01/04/2017. Regarding "work from home," the amendment has been enforced from 01/07/2017.

For a copy of the notification, please refer to the following thread on this site: https://www.citehr.com/580839-matern...ml#post2347024