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Section 1. Married women who are permanently or temporarily appointed in the
service of the Government, or in any of its branches, subdivisions,
agencies, or instrumentalities, including the corporations and
enterprises owned or controlled by the Government, shall, in addition
to the vacation and sick leave which they may enjoy now, be entitled in
case of pregnancy to a maternity leave of sixty days subject to the
following conditions.
(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.
Section 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.
Section 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.
Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
APPROVED: June 14, 1941.
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