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The Maternity (Amendment) Bill 2017, an amendment to the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, was passed in Rajya Sabha on 11 August 2016, in Lok Sabha on 9 March 2017, [3] and received an assent from President of India on 27 March 2017. [4] The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 protects the employment of women during the time of her maternity and entitles ...
No government action came on maternity leave or universal healthcare in the 1950s, and the Equal Pay Act failed to pass repeatedly, despite support from President Dwight Eisenhower.
The Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act 2008 (repealed in 2020) was passed to extend the coverage of life and disability benefits, health and maternity benefits, and old age protection for unorganised workers. "Unorganised" is defined as home-based workers, self-employed workers or daily-wage workers.
Wade (1973) Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court held that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion. The court's decision overruled both Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v.
Since a 2022 Supreme Court decision overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion, about a dozen U.S. states have passed laws banning or severely limiting abortion rights, which has become a key ...
New moms who work in Colorado will be able to take paid leave beginning in 2024. Getty. Colorado became the ninth state in the country (plus Washington D.C.) to pass a paid family leave law on ...
Parental leave (also known as family leave) is regulated in the United States by US labor law and state law. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) requires 12 weeks of unpaid leave annually for parents of newborn or newly adopted children if they work for a company with 50 or more employees. As of October 1, 2020, the same policy has ...
The benefit for workers earning a full-time minimum wage salary (or 40 times the minimum wage) will be equal to $494 weekly in January 2022, increasing to $532 on July 1, 2022, and $570 on June 1 ...