Bombay HC upholds maternity benefits for third child

The Bombay High Court observed that to become a mother is a natural phenomenon and an employer has to be considerate and sympathetic towards the woman employee. The court quashed a 2014 communication issued by the Airport Authority of India (AAI) Western Region Headquarters, refusing maternity leave benefit to a woman employee for delivery of her third child 12 years ago because she was already having two surviving children.
The HC was hearing petitions filed by the Airports Authority of India Workers Union and the woman employee challenging two communications issued by the AAI, Wester Region HeadQuarters, in 2015 rejecting the woman’s application for maternity leave benefits for the delivery of a third child as she already had two surviving children.