ESIC - Notification Issued for the Increase in Maternity Benefit from 12 Weeks to 26 Weeks
Effective from 20th January 2017, by virtue of an amendment in the ESI Rules, an insured woman shall be entitled to 26 weeks of maternity leave.
An insured woman having two or more surviving children shall be entitled to receive maternity benefits during a period of twelve weeks, of which not more than 6 weeks shall precede the expected date of confinement.
Clause 6A of Rule 2 of the ESI Central Rules
The following clause has been added:
‘(6A) “insured woman” means a woman who is or was an employee in respect of whom contributions are or were payable under the Act and who is, by reason thereof, entitled to any of the benefits provided under the Act and shall include:
(i) a commissioning mother who, as a biological mother, wishes to have a child and prefers to get an embryo implanted in another woman;
(ii) a woman who legally adopts a child of up to three months of age.’
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59Effective from 20th January 2017, by virtue of an amendment in the ESI Rules, an insured woman shall be entitled to 26 weeks of maternity leave.
An insured woman having two or more surviving children shall be entitled to receive maternity benefits during a period of twelve weeks, of which not more than 6 weeks shall precede the expected date of confinement.
Clause 6A of Rule 2 of the ESI Central Rules
The following clause has been added:
‘(6A) “insured woman” means a woman who is or was an employee in respect of whom contributions are or were payable under the Act and who is, by reason thereof, entitled to any of the benefits provided under the Act and shall include:
(i) a commissioning mother who, as a biological mother, wishes to have a child and prefers to get an embryo implanted in another woman;
(ii) a woman who legally adopts a child of up to three months of age.’
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Please clear my doubt if women not insured in esic act then the company will pay her full gross salary or only basic salary, please
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Draft Notification dt 6-10-2016 for enhancement of Maternity Benefit to 26 weeks under ESI Act.pdf