Last Change:
05/01/2025
Maternity and Paternity Leave Act, 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Work & Workplace rights
Description
An Act to provide for the facility of maternity and paternity leave to the employees of public and private establishments under administrative control of the Federal Government. Whereas, it is expedient to provide for the facility of maternity and paternity leave to the employees of public and private establishments under administrative control of the Federal Government and for the matters connected therewith and ancillary thereto.
Selected provisions
(1) Maternity leave shall in the prescribed manner be granted on full pay outside the leave account to a female employee on her option to the extent of one hundred and eighty days on first birth, one hundred and twenty days on second birth and ninety days on third birth from the date of commencement thereof.
(2) Such maternity leave may not be granted for more than three time in the entire service of the female employee except when such leave is granted within her leave account due and admissible to her or as an extra ordinary leave without pay.
(1) A male employee expecting his wife to give birth to a child shall, at his option, be granted paternity leave on full pay not exceeding thirty days outside his leave account from the date of its commencement.
(2) Such paternity leave may not be granted for more than three times in the entire service of the male employee except when such leave is granted within his leave account due and admissible to him or as an extra ordinary leave without pay.