Mumbai: Observing that issues pertaining to women and children need to be handled with a humanitarian approach, the Bombay High Court today directed the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation to consider the issue of implementation of childcare leave.
A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and G S Kulkarni was hearing a petition filed by S Mangala, Deputy General Manager (Aviation Safety), Airports Authority of India (AAI) seeking implementation of childcare leave as recommended in the Sixth Pay Commission in 2008.
Mangala approached the high court after her request for leave to attend to her 12-year-old daughter with a learning disability was rejected by AAI.
According to her petition, the Union government had in September 2008 introduced child care leave on recommendation of the Sixth Pay Commission. Under child care leave, a woman employee can take up to two years paid leave until the child is of 18 years age.
10/02/14 PTI/Business Line
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A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and G S Kulkarni was hearing a petition filed by S Mangala, Deputy General Manager (Aviation Safety), Airports Authority of India (AAI) seeking implementation of childcare leave as recommended in the Sixth Pay Commission in 2008.
Mangala approached the high court after her request for leave to attend to her 12-year-old daughter with a learning disability was rejected by AAI.
According to her petition, the Union government had in September 2008 introduced child care leave on recommendation of the Sixth Pay Commission. Under child care leave, a woman employee can take up to two years paid leave until the child is of 18 years age.
10/02/14 PTI/Business Line
