{"id":128854,"date":"2026-08-18T14:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/vijay-govt-to-give-women-employees-365-days-maternity-leave-for-third-child\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:35:42","slug":"vijay-govt-to-give-women-employees-365-days-maternity-leave-for-third-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/vijay-govt-to-give-women-employees-365-days-maternity-leave-for-third-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijay govt to give women employees 365 days maternity leave for third child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the change in the state assembly during the demand for grants for his department, minister D Sarathkumar said the decision was aimed at strengthening the state&#8217;s focus on social welfare and women&#8217;s empowerment. The state had gradually increased maternity leave for its women employees over the years. The original 90-day provision was increased to six months in 2011, followed by an increase to nine months in 2016.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the change in the state assembly during the demand for grants for his department, minister D Sarathkumar said the decision was aimed at strengthening the state&#8217;s focus on social welfare and women&#8217;s empowerment. The state had gradually increased maternity leave for its women employees over the years. The original 90-day provision was increased to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/vijay-govt-to-give-women-employees-365-days-maternity-leave-for-third-child\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vijay govt to give women employees 365 days maternity leave for third child<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":128855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}