Maternity Benefit Act is Applicable to Contractual Employees: Delhi High Court
On the question of validity of claims of whether maternity benefits will be applicable to a contractual employee, the high court pointed out that the liberty to carry a child is a fundamental right, and ‘to stand in the way of exercise of this right by a woman, without procedure or intervention of law, is not only violative of the fundamental rights granted by the Constitution of India but also against the basic tenets of social justice’
