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A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
child care leave
Child Care Leave is akin to privileged leave subject to administrative discretion, not unfettered right: Rajasthan High Court
“Discretion is reserved with the authority empowered to grant leave to refuse or revoke leave at any time according to the exigencies of the public service.”
Every Female and Male Employee whether appointed on regular basis, contractual basis, ad hoc basis, have Fundamental Right to Maternity and Paternity Leave: Himachal Pradesh HC
The Court said that the object of maternity leave is to protect the dignity of motherhood by providing full and healthy maintenance to the woman and her child and maternity leave is intended to achieve the social justice to women.
Male Government Employees who are widowers, divorcees or unmarried are entitled to Child Care Leave: DoPT
While briefing about some of the major reforms brought by Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) Union Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Utt HC | State contractual employees entitled to claim Child Care Leave
Uttaranchal High Court: A Full-Bench of Ramesh Ranganathan CJ, Sudhanshu Dhulia and Alok Kumar Verma JJ, held that contractual state employees are
Government cannot be allowed to take advantage of its own failure in making appointments and deny statutorily recognized right
Punjab and Haryana High Court: The petitioner appeared before the High Court praying she was being denied child care leave on the
State Government directed to set up State Coordination Committee in order to decide granting benefit of child care leave
Bombay High Court: While deciding a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution