প্রসূতিকালিন ছুটির পরিমান, বেতন ও কল্যাণ সুবিধা পাওয়ার অধিকার সমূহ - Maternity Benefit Under Labour Act 2006

প্রসূতিকালিন ছুটির পরিমান, বেতন ও কল্যাণ সুবিধা পাওয়ার অধিকার সমূহ -  Maternity Benefit Under Labour Act 2006.  

Leave,Right to, and liability for, payment of maternity benefit :

(1) every woman employed in an establishment shall be entitled to and her employer shall be liable for, the payment of maternity benefit in respect of the period of eight weeks preceding the expected day of her delivery and eight weeks  (Total 112 Days) immediately following the day of her delivery.

Provided that a woman shall not be entitled to such maternity benefit unless she has worked under the employer, for a period of not less than six month immediately preceding the day of her delivery.

(2) No maternity benefit shall be payable to any woman if at the time of her confinement she has two or more surviving children, but in that case she shall be entitled to the leave to which she would otherwise be entitled

Procedure regarding payment of maternity benefit : Any pregnant woman entitled to maternity benefit under this act may, on any day, give notice either orally or in writing to her employer that she expects to be confined within eight weeks next following and may therein nominate a person for purposes of receiving payment of maternity benefit in case of her death.

Amount of maternity benefit :

(1) The maternity benefit which is payable under this act shall be payable at the rate of daily, weekly or monthly average wages, as the case may be, calculated in the manner laid down in sub-section

(2), and such payment shall be made wholly in cash. (2) For the purpose of sub-section (1) the daily, weekly or monthly average wages, as the case may be, shall be calculated by dividing the total wages earned by the woman during the three months immediately preceding the date on which she gives notice under this act by the number of day she actually worked during the period.

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