Provides guidelines to manage an employee’s absence from work due to maternity or adoption.
This policy covers the need for an organisation to provide maximum support to women employees for their wellbeing as well as her newborn child or adopted child. This covers both pre and postnatal care. The policy complies with the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.
This policy template is available for download in Word format.
With this Maternity Leave Policy template you can:
Standardise the policy for adherence
Save time and effort for managers/HR staff
Bring in consistency in interpretation and implementation
In just a few minutes you will be able to create a maternity leave policy. This policy covers rules to be followed with respect to:
Support that an employee can seek and get from the organisation
Quantum of leaves and benefits one can avail
Ensure continuity of business and minimum disruption to process or business
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Disclaimer
This template is meant to provide general guidelines and should be used as a reference. This is not a legal document. greytHR will not assume any legal liability that may arise from the use of this template.