{"id":23115,"date":"2017-04-11T17:18:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=23115"},"modified":"2017-10-16T13:05:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T07:35:29","slug":"sc-asks-centre-to-implement-maternity-benefit-within-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/news\/sc-asks-centre-to-implement-maternity-benefit-within-8-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"SC asks centre to implement maternity benefit within 8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper wpb_text_column td_block_wrap td_block_wrap vc_column_text tdi_5  tagdiv-type td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\"  data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_5\" ><div class=\"td-block-title-wrap\"><\/div><div class=\"td-fix-index\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Following the victory for pregnant women in getting maternity leave extended from 12 weeks to 26 weeks, the Supreme Court on April 11 also gave eight weeks to the government to implement maternity benefit as per law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hearing a petition by People&#8217;s Union for Civil Liberties, the bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta gave this order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The matter was related to the implementation of the maternity benefit in Section 4(b) of the National Food Security Act, which came into force on September 10, 2013. It states that every pregnant and lactating mother would be entitled to \u201cmaternity benefit of not less than Rupees six thousand\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves submitted that the maternity benefit will have to be given to all pregnant women. \u201cThey must implement the statute,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The counsel for the government said that the implementation guidelines were being framed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Justice Lokur asked the petitioner: \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Gonsalves said: \u201cWe want implementation of Section 4(b) of the Maternity Benefit Act. At which the bench ordered the government to ensure full implementation of the Act within eight weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>\u2014By India Legal Bureau<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6390,6388,6389,2975,6391,1735],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Maternity-lead.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}