Background: CCL to civilian employees
Recently, DoPT has made following amendments for grant of CCL to civilian employees –
- The CCL granted to woman employees till now has been extended to single male government servants also.
- The age limit of 22 years prescribed earlier in the case of a child with 40 % disability has been removed for the purpose of availing CCL.
- The minimum period of CCL that can be availed at a time has been reduced to 5 days instead of 15 days.
CCL in defence forces:
Presently, Child Care Leave (CCL) is being granted to woman officers in defence forces. Now the proposal of Ministry of Defence extending similar benefits to Defence personnel has been approved by Defence Minister.
- With this, single male service personnel will be able to avail the benefit of CCL.
- Single male service personnel and woman officers of defence forces will also be able to avail CCL in respect of child with 40 % disability without any restriction of age limit of the child.
- Further, the minimum period of CCL that can be availed in each spell has been reduced to 05 days from the earlier limit of 15 days.
