Government to refund employers for seven weeks of maternity leave given to employees: WCD CRE-23/1/2018 – Creche- Part(2) Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi Dated: 2nd November, 2018 Office Memorandum Subject:  National Minimum Guidelines for setting up and running creches under Maternity 8enefit Act, 2017 – Forwarding of The undersigned is directed to refer to the subject mentioned above & to say that the Ministry of Labour & Employment has notified the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017 mandating that “every establishment having fifty or more employees shall have the facility of creche within such distance as may be prescribed, either separately or along with common facilities”, 2. In this regard, to enable and facilitate the employer for establishing and managing the creche facility, the Ministry of Women & Child Development has formulated the  National Minimum Guidelines for Setting Up and Run...

National Minimum Guidelines for setting up and running creches under Maternity Benefit Act, 2017 Government to refund employers for seven weeks of maternity leave given to employees: WCD The government will give employers the salaries for seven of the 26 weeks of maternity leave for women earning more than Rs 15,000 a month, the Women and Child Development ministry announced on Thursday. The announcement, which covers the government as well as the private sector, comes in the wake of complaints that many companies were reluctant hire pregnant women after maternity leave was extended from 12 to 26 weeks and some were even firing women employees. WCD Secretary Rakesh Srivastava said it has been decided to utilise the funds lying in the labour welfare cess to pay the employers. “The utilisation of the labour welfare cess lying with the state governments has been very less. After talks with the Labour Ministry it has been decided that the seven of the 26 weeks of maternity leave...

SHe-Box portal set up for registering complaints of sexual harassment of women employees at workplace,  of both Government and Private sector More than 350 complaints of inappropriate behaviour received by WCD Ministry including those through SHe-Box portal In order to ensure the effective implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, the Ministry of Women & Child Development has launched an online complaint management system titled Sexual Harassment electronic-Box (SHe-Box) for registering complaints related to sexual harassment at workplace of all women employees in the country, including government and private employees. More than 350 complaints relating to inappropriate behaviour have been received in the Ministry which includes complaint received through portal 'SHe- box'. Ministry of Corporate Affairs has been requested for mandatory disclosure of Internal Complaints Committee (ICCs) in the Annual Repo...