No Maternity Leave For State Govt Employees For Third Child:Uttarakhand High Court
By:- Syed Ali Taher Abedi
A division bench of Utterakahand High Court has overruled a 2018 decision of the High Court providing maternity leave for a third pregnancy to government women employees.
The directions of the court came after a petition filed by Urmila Masih, a state government employee who had applied for maternity leave from six months from 20, June 2015 to December 9, 2015, Masih who was not granted the leave stating that she was not eligible for the leave for a third pregnancy under the “second provision of fundamental rule 153”
The Judgment came on Tuesday, September 17 after a division bench comprising of Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice Alok Kumar removed the previous order passed in July 2018 by the High Court’s single bench.In July 2018, th high court had scraped the rule barring maternity leave to women government employees for the third pregnancy, claiming it to be”Uncostitutinal”
