Single male parents can avail of Child Care Leave

The Union MinisterJitendra Singh has announced that now single male employees in government jobs are entitled to take Child Care Leave (CCL).

A clarification was made that, “single male guardians” would include employees who are unmarried, widower or divorced. He added that for the first year an employee can use ‘Child Care Leave’ as 100 per cent of leave salary. From next year, we will be able to use it as 85 percent leave salary.

This is a major reform step to make the lives of government employees easier.

It will be aprogressive reform which will bring ease of living for government servants.