After the cabinet decision taken by the Pushkar Dhami government of Uttarakhand, now women employees and women-male single employees will be able to take child care leave for two years i.e. 730 days in the entire service period to take care of the child’s illness or examination etc. .
Government employees Child Care Leave: There is good news for the government employees of Uttarakhand. After the decision of the cabinet meeting, single male and female government employees will also get the benefit of child care leave, although those in probation period will not be entitled to it. Finance Secretary Dilip Jawalkar has issued orders in this regard.
Under the order, after the cabinet decision taken by the Pushkar Dhami government of Uttarakhand, now women employees and women-male single employees will be entitled to child care for two years i.e. 730 days in the entire service period to take care of the child’s illness or examination etc. ) will be able to take leave. After this decision, now single female and male guardian employees are also entitled to child care leave.
Single male employees will get benefits like this
According to the order issued, single male guardian will include all those employees who are unmarried or widower or divorcee and who have the responsibility of one child on their shoulders alone. A single female government employee will get a maximum of six holidays in a calendar year and other eligible male and female employees three times in a calendar year. They will get full salary for 365 days leave. For the next 365 days, they will be paid only 80 percent of the sanctioned leave.
Know who will get benefit and who will not
- Eligible male and female government teachers (excluding the posts of UGC, CSIR and ICAR) of government and aided educational, technical educational institutions of many departments and non-teaching eligible employees of aided educational and technical educational institutions will get benefits.
- Employees will not be entitled to child care leave while on probation, but in departments whose service rules provide for child care leave during the probation period, it cannot be given for more than three months.
- In special circumstances, the appointing authority may also consider sanctioning child care leave of a lesser duration on merits.
these will be the rules - Women employees of the state government and women and men single employees will be able to take child care leave for two years i.e. 730 days in the entire service period to take care of their children in case of illness or examination etc.
- There will be no restriction of age limit in case of children with 40% or more disability.
This leave will be sanctioned as earned leave and its account will be maintained on the same lines. - Intervening public holidays will be considered included in child care leave.
- For public interest and administrative work, the appointing authority will not grant leave to an employee for a period of not less than five days and not more than 120 days at a time.
