The top court's judgement came on a plea filed by advocate Hamsaanandini Nanduri challenging Section 60(4) of the Social ...

Supreme Court rules adoptive mothers entitled to 12 weeks maternity leave, regardless of child's age, and calls for paternity leave recognition.

The top court said the process of adjustment and integration within the adoptive family, both for the parents as well as the child, remains substantially the same irrespective of the age of the child.

Top court strikes down legal provision that said only mothers who adopt a child below three months of age are entitled to ...

Quoting studies by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the bench of Justices JB Pardiwalah and R Mahadevan noted that employed women tend to spend more time working than men once unpaid ...

SC observed that the purpose of maternity benefits is to support motherhood and caregiving, not merely biological childbirth ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a provision of the Social Security Code, 2020 that limits maternity benefits for adoptive mothers to cases where the adopted child was below three months of ...

The Supreme Court ruled that all adoptive mothers are entitled to 12 weeks of maternity leave, regardless of the child's age, enhancing parental rights.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down Section 60(4) of the Social Security Code, 2020 which laid down that adoptive mothers will be eligible for maternity le ...

Supreme Court rules all adoptive mothers entitled to 12 weeks maternity leave, strikes down age limit clause as unconstitutional, flags paternity leave need.

The Supreme Court struck down the three-month age limit for maternity leave for adoptive mothers, granting 12 weeks’ leave ...

SC rules mothers entitled to 12 weeks' leave from date of adoption, irrespective of child’s age; was so far limited to those ...