Jammu, Nov 7 :-The Central Administrative Tribunal, Srinagar Bench in TA/062/128/2024 (earlier WP(C) No. 1069/2023), filed by Dr. Saima Jan, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics,, has held that a woman employee cannot be denied maternity leave merely because she has a third child, directing the University of Kashmir to reconsider the claim of an Assistant Professor whose request for 180 days’ maternity leave was earlier turned down on the basis of a two-child norm.

It is to mention here that University rejected her request for maternity leave from June 10 to December 10, 2022 following the birth of her third child.

Dr. Jan, appointed on April 17, 2017, had earlier availed maternity leave for her first child born on December 9, 2018. During her second pregnancy, she tested Covid

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