Hi, My self Mallikarjun. i need to know some information regarding maternity benefits. My colleague joined in November 2015 and they got maternity leave in march 2018 to aug 2018 for 5 months. And now in dec 2018 she is requesting to increment. the organisation is saying maternity leave period will not be considered for increment so wait for 5 months to get benefit of increment. please give me the info.