(a) Permanent
and regular employees who have rendered two or more years of continuous
service, shall be entitled to maternity leave with full pay;
(b) Permanent
and regular employees who have rendered less than two years of
continuous
service, shall be entitled to half pay; and
(c) Temporary
employees shall be entitled to maternity leave without pay and shall be
readmitted to the service at the end of their leave. No employee shall
be refused readmission to the service on the ground of absence on
account
of maternity.
Sec.
2. The proper department
head or chief of bureau or office shall, subject to the requirements of
the public service, avoid the assignment of strenuous and fatiguing
work
to married women under their charge who are in a state of pregnancy.
Sec.
3. Any savings in the appropriation,
allotment, or fund for salaries and wages, authorized for any fiscal
year
for the department of the government concerned, or for any of its
branches,
subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities, including corporations
and
enterprises owned or controlled by it, may be used for the temporary
employment
of substitute officers or employees to take the place of those who are
granted maternity leave if the duties of the latter cannot be dispensed
with without detriment to the service, and the same cannot be assigned
to, or distributed among, the other employees already in the service.
Approved: June 14, 1941.
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