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Dear Client,
The Maternity Benefit Act 1961 states that a woman employee can apply for Maternity leave if she has worked with the employer for 80 days in the last 12 months immediately preceding the date of her expected delivery. It's illegal for employers to discriminate against a woman employee based on her employment status or pregnancy status. An employer cannot discriminate against a woman employee based on her pregnancy status during her pregnancy or post-pregnancy, affecting her maternit

Dear Client,
From the contents of the query, it appears that HR of the company is asking you to sign an involuntary termination letter, which is typically a termination when an employer ends an employee's job rather than the employee quitting his/her job voluntarily. It may also be considered to be a firing or wrongful termination once it is litigated upon. It's illegal for employers to discriminate against a woman employee based on her employment status or pregnancy status. An employer cannot

Dear Client,
The Maternity Benefit Act 1961 states that a woman employee can apply for Maternity leave regardless of her nature or category of employment, i.e, probation, intern, casual, contractual, or permanent if she has worked with the employer for 80 days in the last 12 months immediately preceding the date of her expected delivery. It's illegal for employers to discriminate against a woman employee based on her employment status or pregnancy status. An employer cannot discriminate against

Dear Client,
The Maternity Benefit Act 1961 states that a woman employee can apply for Maternity leave regardless of her nature or category of employment, i.e, probation, intern, casual, contractual, or permanent if she has worked with the employer for 80 days in the last 12 months immediately preceding the date of her expected delivery. It's illegal for employers to discriminate against a woman employee based on her employment status or pregnancy status. An employer cannot discriminate against

Dear Client,
Transfer, promotion, and placement are the normal incidents of service life. Regardless of the sector or character of establishments, either public or private, the recruitment, transfer, promotion, and upgradation of manpower is processed following its standing policy, and recruitment and transfer, or placement of manpower is also a prerogative of the establishment. The duration of maternity leave for both first and second-time mothers is 6 months or 26 weeks. This leave can be av

Dear Client,
The Maternity Benefit Act 1961 states that a woman employee can apply for Maternity leave if she has worked with the employer for 80 days in the last 12 months immediately preceding the date of her expected delivery. The duration of maternity leave for both first and second-time mothers is 6 months or 26 weeks. This leave can be availed either before or within 6 months from the expected date of delivery of the child. Here, 6 6-month period meant for a maximum limit of leave a woman

Dear client,

Send a Legal Notice to the Employer:
Through a lawyer, you can send a legal notice demanding:
Correction of the falsified resignation and service records.
Immediate payment of maternity benefits with interest.
Compensation for mental harassment and loss of employment.

If the employer does not respond to the legal notice, you can file a case before the Labour Court or Industrial Tribunal claiming:
Payment of maternity benefit under Section 12 of the Maternity Benefit Act.
Compensat

Dear Client,
Your query suffers from a lack of information and transparency to address it suitably. You expressed your situation, but did not provide a cause of action that attracts a legal remedy. This is a forum, and in the absence of a specific cause of action, suitable legal remedies cannot be suggested based on the standalone situation/circumstances. So, please revert to us with more details and a cause of action that requires a legal remedy.

Dear Client,
Unless the ESI Act, 1948 is applicable to a company or the company did not register them under the said Act, monthly contribution towards ESI post enrollment of employee name, is not deducted from the Salary. So, a question arises as to how you availed the ESI leave during the pregnancy period which is clarified by the ESI authority as stated in the query. Be informed that the Maternity Benefit Act 1961 states that a woman employee can apply for Maternity leave if she has worked wit

Dear Client,
The Maternity Benefit Act 1961 is applicable to establishments employing TEN or more persons, except employees covered under the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948, which also requires ten or more employees for the application of the Act. So, a company having less than 10 employees does not come under the purview of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.