Maternity Act News Today

I finished active treatment on April 30th and got a letter from the Department of Social Protection a week later saying my maternity leave was up. Surely they did not expect this sick, bald woman to return to work now?

Experts anticipate incentives for maternity leave benefits and skill training for young women in the upcoming interim budget.

Underscoring the significance of upholding the rights of women during maternity the Himachal Pradesh High Court has observed that "Motherhood is an important and essential duty to be performed by a...

India Inc is backing the case for returnships- a woman coming after a maternity break or expectant mothers being hired during late-stage pregnancy.

It examined working conditions of women police personnel in the states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar by interviewing them and filing RTI applications.

The Maternity Act, which came into force in 2019, made it easier for couples to declare parenthood, significantly reducing the number of adoptions.

The organisers of the Dublin Pride festival described discussions on the RTÉ Radio 1 programme as ‘unacceptable and extremely harmful’.

We list the various types of incentives announced under the Gujarat IT/ITES Policy 2022-27, which aims to make Gujarat state a leading IT hub in India.

Statistics Finland Fall in the number of families has halted According to Statistics Finland’s data, there were 1,467,653 families in Finland at the end of 2020. The number of families grew by 285, while in the previous year it decreased by 1,313 families. While in 1990 the commonest family type was “married couple with children”, in 2020 the commonest family type was “married couple without children”. The number of families with a married couple and children has been falling steadily...

Michael Ellis, attorney general Michael Ellis has been named attorney general while Suella Braverman is on maternity leave, Downing Street has confirmed.  Braverman is the first minister to use the Maternity Act 2021, which allows her to take paid leave while she has a baby.  Northampton North MP Ellis, who moves up from the position of solicitor general, has previously served as transport minister, arts minister and deputy leader of the Commons.  Lucy Frazer, who was prisons minister, will ...