Government mulling maternity benefit for women in unorganised sector
NEW DELHI: Government is mulling over a contributory maternity benefit scheme for the unorganised sector employing around 10 crore women, after enhancing the paid maternity leave in all companies to six months.
The ministry has geared up to provide this sustenance to women in unorganised sector after Rajya Sabha passed the Maternity Benefit Bill 2016 unanimously to provide 26 weeks of leave to working mothers in the formal sector last week.
"We are planning a maternity benefit scheme on the lines of other contributory social security schemes run by retirement fund body EPFO and Employees State Insurance Corp," Labour Secretary Shankar Aggarwal told PTI.
"The scheme will be contributory where the subscribers as well as government will make equal contributions. The members would have option to contribute more than the minimum prescribed contribution so that they can save even more for those days," he added.
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