Good news! Tata Teleservices to give 6-month maternity leave to women employees

Tata Teleservices has increased its maternity leave for women employees to six-month paid leave along with an additional six months of half day half pay option, according to Times of India report.

Chief Human Resources of Tata Teleservices, Richa Tripathi told The Economic Times that this is being done in order to increase the number of its women workforce.

Various organisations in the country are now extending additional benefits to working mothers to ease getting back to work after pregnancy and help them establish a work-life balance and that includes women who opt for adoption and surrogacy options to raise children.

As per Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, a working woman is entitled to 12 weeks of maternity leave, out of which six weeks are before the expected date of delivery.