{"id":30882,"date":"2018-10-27T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30882"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:47:22","slug":"woman-who-had-twins-via-surrogacy-given-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/woman-who-had-twins-via-surrogacy-given-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who had twins via surrogacy given leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/woman-who-had-twins-via-surrogacy-given-leave\/article22914056.ece\"><b>Woman who had twins via surrogacy given leave<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Administrative Tribunal has come to the aid of a woman, working in the Ministry of Law &amp; Justice, who was denied maternity leave as she had begotten her children through surrogacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Backdrop<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The woman had entered into Gestational Surrogacy Agreement with another woman.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The surrogate mother delivered twins on February 13 last year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Being the biological mother she applied for grant of 180 days maternity leave to her with effect from the day the babies were born.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, her application was rejected on the ground that according to Central Civil Services (CCS) Leave Rules, maternity leave cannot be granted to a government servant on getting baby through surrogacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The woman then moved the Tribunal seeking to quash the order denying her the maternity leave.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Argument by the Ministry<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Responding to her plea, the Ministry had defended its decision to deny the maternity leave saying the issue has been dealt within Rule 43 of CCS (Leave) Rules<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rules make it absolutely clear that a commissioning mother or biological mother is not entitled for grant of maternity leave.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Tribunal\u2019s Judgement:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tribunal has directed the Ministry to sanction 180 days of maternity leave to the woman citing three High Court verdicts which held that the commissioning mother is also entitled for grant of maternity leave.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman who had twins via surrogacy given leave Context: The Central Administrative Tribunal has come to the aid of a woman, working in the Ministry of Law &amp; Justice, who was denied maternity leave as she had begotten her children through surrogacy. Backdrop The woman had entered into Gestational Surrogacy Agreement with another woman. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/woman-who-had-twins-via-surrogacy-given-leave\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woman who had twins via surrogacy given leave<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704895918},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}