Explanation The Correct Answer is 3 only. Key Points • The Ma | UPSC LAW Optional

Explanation
The Correct Answer is 3 only.

Key Points
• The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act of 2017 grants working women 26 weeks of paid maternity leave. (Therefore, statement 1 is false.)

• Any business with more than 50 workers must provide a childcare facility for working mothers, and businesses must permit a woman to attend the childcare facility four times per day to feed and care for her kid.

• Paid maternity leave will last 12 weeks for mothers who are pregnant after having two children already. (Therefore, Statement 3 is true.)

Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act 2017
○ After being approved by the Parliament, the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act 2017 gained presidential assent on March 27, 2017. The 1961 Maternity Benefits Act has been modified by the Act. The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act's majority of its provisions went into effect on April 1, 2017.

○ The Act's primary goal is to control women's employment during pregnancy and childbirth. The clauses relating to the length and applicability of maternity leave, as well as other facilities, have been changed.

• Major changes

○ The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act 2017 extended the amount of time that women employees can take off work for maternity leave, bringing it up from 12 weeks to 26 weeks. The length of the leave, however, remains unchanged at 12 weeks for women who become pregnant after having two children.

○ The paid maternity leave may be used up to eight weeks prior to the anticipated due date. Prior to the modification, there were six weeks.

○ The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act of 2017 expanded the benefits available to commissioning and adoptive moms, and also stipulates that a woman who adopts a child shall be granted 12 weeks of maternity leave starting on the date of adoption.

○ An enabling clause for "work from home" has been added to the Act and may be used beyond the expiration of the 26-week leave term. A woman can take advantage of this provision depending on the type of work she does under conditions that are mutually agreed upon with the employer.

○ Creche facilities are required by the revised Act for every business with 50 or more employees. The facilities should be open to the female employees four times a day.

○ Under the revised law, employers are required to inform women about the maternity benefits that are available to them at the time of their employment.

• Other provisions
○ All women engaged in factories, mines, stores, or other commercial establishments with 10 or more employees are covered by the act.