PATERNITY LEAVE

About:

• Unlike maternity leave, which is legally mandated, the private sector is not bound to provide paternity leave in India.
  
  
• There is a legal stipulation for central government employees –– a “male civil servant (including an apprentice, probationer) with less than two surviving children may be granted Paternity Leave for a period of 15 days before or up to six months from the date of delivery of the child.”
  
  
• The “less than two surviving children” means the employee can take paternity leaves only for his first two children.
  
  
• Thus, the decision on how long a paternity leave they wish to provide rests with a particular company.