Maternity Benefit

Priya, a junior associate at a Mumbai firm, is seven months pregnant. Her manager says the firm will "see how it goes" about leave, and that the partners prefer people who do not disappear for six months. Can he say that? Can the firm let her go? And what does she get paid while she is away? Chapter VI of the Code on Social Security, 2020 (ss.59-72) gives a woman a right to paid leave and shields her job.

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A woman who has worked at least eighty days in the twelve months before her expected delivery is entitled to maternity benefit at her average daily wage for up to twenty-six weeks (twelve if she already has two or more surviving children), and her employer cannot dismiss her for the absence.

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