Maternity leave is a right, can’t be clubbed with regular leave: Kerala HC

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Maternity permission is simply a substance of close and cannot beryllium clubbed with regular permission availed of by oneself, the Kerala High Court has said.

A Bench of Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas was proceeding a plea by a pistillate doc from Ernakulam who approached the tribunal challenging the alleged refusal of the National Board of Examinations successful Medical Science (NBEMS) to o.k. 402 days of permission the trainee had availed of herself. This included 184 days of maternity leave.

The committee contended that trainees would beryllium disqualified from continuing their programme if the full permission availed of by them exceeded a year. The petitioner said she had to acquisition attraction for an assertive signifier of humor cancer, isolated from her maternity leave.

Allowing her plea, the tribunal observed that bonzer situations required bonzer attack and that the wide regularisation limiting permission to a twelvemonth cannot beryllium mechanically applied to exceptional cases specified arsenic that of the petitioner.

Published - February 04, 2026 08:44 p.m. IST

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