Child Care Leave

8.128-B. (1) Subject to the provisions of this rule a woman Government employee having minor children below the age of eighteen years, may be granted Child Care Leave for a maximum period of one year (i.e. 365 days) during her entire service for taking care of two eldest surviving children, whether for rearing or to look after any of their needs such as examination, sickness and the like, on production of a documentary proof.
(2) Such leave may be granted in more than one spells, but it shall not be granted in more than three spells in a calendar year. However, it shall not be granted for a period of less than fifteen days.
(3) The grant of leave under this rule shall be subject to the provisions of rule 8.15. If the exigencies of public service so require, the authority empowered to grant leave, may refuse to sanction leave to a Government employee or may cancel the leave already sanctioned in any case.
(4) Child Care Leave shall be sanctioned as in the case of earned leave and no Government employee shall proceed on such leave without obtaining prior approval of the competent authority.
(5) Child Care Leave shall not be granted under any circumstances to a Government employee, who remains on an unauthorised absence from duty and applies for it.
(6) During the period of such leave, the Government employee shall be entitled to leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.
(7) This Leave shall not be debited against the regular leave account of the Government employee. However, a separate Leave Account for this Leave shall be maintained in a proforma, as may be specified and the entries relating to this Leave shall be made in the Service Book of the concerned employee.
(8) Child Care Leave shall not be sanctioned in the case of a woman Government employee,–
(a) against whom a disciplinary proceeding has been instituted or who is under suspension; or
(b) who is under probation period:
Provided that an authority empowered to grant leave may grant leave to such a Government employee after considering a medical certificate, countersigned by a medical authority not below the rank of Civil Surgeon, to the effect that the minor child is suffering from some serious ailment which warrants mother‟s immediate personal care; or
(c) who has been appointed on daily wages, work-charged or contract basis.
(9) Leave already availed or being availed of by a Government employee shall, under no circumstances, be converted into Child Care Leave.
Clarification.–(i) Child Care Leave in connection with the examination or illness of a minor child living abroad, shall be sanctioned on the basis of a certificate issued in this regard by the concerned educational institution or by an authorised doctor, as the case may be. The woman Government employee, who avails Child Care Leave in respect of a minor child living abroad, shall have to comply with all the rules/instructions for proceeding on ex-India leave and eighty per cent period of such leave shall have to be spent in the country where the child is living;
(ii) before Child Care Leave is sanctioned relating to the examination of a minor child, who lives in a hostel in India or abroad, the Government employee shall have to clarify how the needs of such a minor child will be looked after by her; 

(iii) Leave Travel Concession shall not be permitted during Child Care Leave; and
(iv) a spell, which begins during a calendar year and ends in the next calendar year, shall be deemed as a spell pertaining to the calendar year in which the spell begins.
 

Instruction regarding Child Care Leave of female employees

PP-3 Branch, Department of Personnel, Government of Punjab

No. 6/26/2011-6PP3/2046 Dated 22-12-2011

Child Care Leave to Female Government Employee
Personnel Policy 3 Branch, Department of Personnel, Government of Punjab
No. 6/26/2011-6PP3/1276 Dated 08-08-2012